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On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 9:46 AM, Valmor de Almeida <val.gentoo@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Dale wrote: |
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>> Valmor de Almeida wrote: |
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>>> Hello, |
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>>> |
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>>> I would appreciate some guidance in getting sound working such that I |
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>>> can listen to an adobe flash video. I am using firefox (have the adobe |
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>>> flash plugin installed which plays video but no sound) and a pretty |
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>>> updated gentoo laptop. |
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>>> |
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>>> Thanks in advance. |
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>>> |
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>>> -- |
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>>> Valmor |
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>>> |
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>>> PS: never tried to get sound working. |
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>>> |
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>>> |
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>> Try lspci -v and see if the sounds card is using a driver. If it is, |
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>> then the kernel is working and it is recognizing the sound card. This |
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>> is what mine looks like: |
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>> 01:0a.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 0a) |
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>> Subsystem: Creative Labs SBLive! 5.1 eMicro 28028 |
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>> Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 18 |
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>> I/O ports at b000 [size=32] |
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>> Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1 |
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>> Kernel driver in use: EMU10K1_Audigy |
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>> The last line is what you look for. If you see something like that then |
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>> it could be as simple as the sound is muted. I have no idea why but as |
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>> a general rule, the sound is muted when you install. I use KDE so I had |
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>> to unmute with Kmix and alsamixer to get mine working. |
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>> If it doesn't show a driver in use, then you have to either build a |
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>> module or a new kernel if you want it built in. In that case, let us |
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>> know what kind of sound card you have. The output from lspci would be |
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>> great. |
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>> Dale |
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>> :-) :-) |
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> Here is lshw info |
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> *-multimedia |
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> description: Audio device |
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> product: 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller |
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> vendor: Intel Corporation |
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> physical id: 1b |
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> bus info: pci@0000:00:1b.0 |
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> version: 02 |
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> width: 64 bits |
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> clock: 33MHz |
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> capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list |
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> configuration: driver=HDA Intel latency=0 module=snd_hda_intel |
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> and lspci |
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> 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High |
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> Definition Audio Controller (rev 02) |
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> Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel |
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> I did built the sound support into the kernel. |
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> I run a lean gentoo install; no desktop; only a window manager |
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> (windowmaker). Nothing related to alsa is installed. I installed adobe's |
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> flash player plugin which ended up in ~/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so |
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> When I play a flash video I don't see an option for turning on audio. |
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> Thanks, |
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Looks like you've got it installed properly... have you unmuted the |
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sound? AFAIK alsa mutes everything by default. Run alsamixer and play |
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a video with sound and adjust them until you hear something. |
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