I was watching a video last night and the sound suddenly stopped working, like, just -not- playing. Now, I should have just restarted the sound driver, but what I did was:
and now even after rebooting the computer the sound still doesn't work.
works fine, and
Is it possible that my malformed attempt to play white noise somehow screwed up the firmware, or is something else at play here?
Code:
cat /dev/urandom /dev/dsp0.0
and now even after rebooting the computer the sound still doesn't work.
Code:
kldload snd_hda
Code:
> cat /dev/sndstat
FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm: 32bit 2009061500/i386)
Installed devices:
pcm0: <HDA Analog Devices AD1984 PCM #0 Analog> (play/rec) default
pcm1: <HDA Analog Devices AD1984 PCM #1 Digital> (play)
Is it possible that my malformed attempt to play white noise somehow screwed up the firmware, or is something else at play here?