Audio suddenly weak...

[KenGordon]

Well, this is weird.

I am running FreeBSD 13.1-Release.

Up until today, audio output has been just fine. When I fired up today, the sound-level is very much weaker than it has been.

For instance, I like to listen to Sunday Baroque through Firefox while I am working in the office. Today, I have the volume-settings on both the website, and on my pair of speakers set to maximum, yet the sound-level is as if everything is set to 25% or less.

It used to rattle the windows if I wanted to. Now it is almost too weak for my 80 year old ears to hear.

Doing dmesg | grep pcm returns NVIDIA for pcm 0, 1, and 2, and USB audio on pcm 3, 4, and 5, but no listing for Realtek.

Is there an easy fix for this?

Ken

 

[3301]

To list audio devices please use cat /dev/sndstat. There should be default next to the device currently used. To change device use sysctl hw.snd.default_unit=number where number should be taken from previous command result. To manipulate device volume use mixer

 

[bsduck]

but no listing for Realtek

... while it used to be there before? This sounds a lot like a hardware failure.

Which sound device is currently in use? Does the sound really come out of your speakers? It could possibly come from integrated speakers in your screen, via HDMI (this would be the NVIDIA entries).