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Subject: Re: Resetting the sound system
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Dear Mark,

Liontaur wrote:
> 2010/10/28 Michaël Grünewald<michaelgrunewald@yahoo.fr>
 >
>> the audio software I use sometimes seems to handle unappropriately its
>> input and leave the sound system in a strange state.  When this happens, the
>> lowest frequencies of the played sound are very attenuated and what is still
>> audible sounds unpleasantly metallic.  Rebooting the machine immediately
>> brings up the sound system in shape again, but it would be nice if they were
>> a more sensible way to reset it!
>
> Not sure if there's an easier way, but if you've got the audio driver
> kldloaded then just unload and reload it. If it's compiled in your kernel
> then I don't know.

thank you very much for your answer.  I have got the audio driver 
compiled in the kernel, so I can not use your tip unless I remove this 
module of the kernel.

Michael