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From: Valmor de Almeida <val.gentoo@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] need sound to listen to a adobe flash video
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:44:31
Message-Id: 4AF34708.6050503@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] need sound to listen to a adobe flash video by Dale
1 Dale wrote:
2 ...[snip]...
3 >
4 > At least you are past the kernel part and know the hardware should be
5 > working. I had to install alsamixergui to unmute mine. Since I have a
6 > somewhat bloated install, I'm not sure how you would unmute yours. You
7 > may have to install some kind of alsa to do that. I'm not really sure
8 > in this situation.
9 >
10 > Here is a link about alsa:
11 >
12 > http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Matrix:Module-intel8x0
13 >
14 > I read in there that cards are muted by default. It says it this way:
15 > "Now adjust your soundcard's volume levels. All mixer channels are muted
16 > by default. You must use a native mixer program to unmute appropriate
17 > channels, for example alsamixer from the alsa-utils package." I would
18 > do a emerge -p alsa-utils and just see if it is going to try to install
19 > the kitchen sink or just it and perhaps a couple others that you can
20 > live with.
21 >
22 > That help?
23 >
24 > Dale
25 >
26 > :-) :-)
27 >
28 >
29
30 I think I am getting close. My video player is vlc and I reemerged with
31 alsa support; that pulled only the relevant alsa packages. Then
32 downloaded a flv video and played; no sound. But got some clue.
33
34 [0x9e5e950] main demux error: no meta reader module matched "any"
35 mdb:382, lastbuf:0 skipping granule 0
36 mdb:382, lastbuf:0 skipping granule 0
37 mdb:382, lastbuf:0 skipping granule 1
38 mdb:382, lastbuf:0 skipping granule 1
39 ALSA lib confmisc.c:768:(parse_card) cannot find card '0'
40 ALSA lib conf.c:3513:(_snd_config_evaluate) function
41 snd_func_card_driver returned
42 error: No such file or directory
43 ALSA lib confmisc.c:392:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings
44 ALSA lib conf.c:3513:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat
45 returned erro
46 r: No such file or directory
47 ALSA lib confmisc.c:1251:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name
48 ALSA lib conf.c:3513:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer
49 returned error
50 : No such file or directory
51 ALSA lib conf.c:3985:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such file or
52 directory
53 ALSA lib pcm.c:2211:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default
54 mdb:511, lastbuf:382 skipping granule 0
55 mdb:511, lastbuf:382 skipping granule 0
56 mdb:511, lastbuf:382 skipping granule 1
57 mdb:511, lastbuf:382 skipping granule 1
58 QPainter::begin: Paint device returned engine == 0, type: 1
59 QPainter::begin: Paint device returned engine == 0, type: 1
60
61 Will follow the gentoo online doc on alsa to troubleshoot. Seems I will
62 have to revisit my hal configuration?
63
64 Thanks,
65
66 --
67 Valmor

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Re: [gentoo-user] need sound to listen to a adobe flash video James Ausmus <james.ausmus@×××××.com>
[gentoo-user] Re: need sound to listen to a adobe flash video Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de>