Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Valmor de Almeida <val.gentoo@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [solved] need sound to listen to a adobe flash video
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 04:03:10
Message-Id: 4B00CCCD.9000003@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] need sound to listen to a adobe flash video by Valmor de Almeida
1 Valmor de Almeida wrote:
2 > Stroller wrote:
3 > [snip]
4 >> You haven't made it clear - in any of your subsequent posts, either -
5 >> if sound is working for other applications.
6 >
7 > I have never configured sound. It has never worked.
8 >
9 >> If you get a new email, does your laptop go "bing!"? Can you play an
10 >> MP3 by double clicking on it or at the command line? What if you run
11 >> mplayer at the command line on an AVI video?
12 >
13 > No sound.
14 >
15 >> If you have only previously used your laptop for email, surfing the
16 >> web or writing code, it's not clear that sound may *ever* have been
17 >
18 > Indeed this is the case and I am trying to get it to work since some
19 > tutorials I need to listen to are only available on video with audio.
20 >
21 >> working on it. IMO you need to get sound working for a basic program
22 >> that uses audio before worrying about Flash, which seems more
23 >> problematic.
24 >>
25 >
26 > Thanks,
27 >
28 > --
29 > Valmor
30 >
31 >> Stroller.
32 >>
33 >>
34 >
35 >
36 After rebuilding the kernel with additional intel driver support and
37 adding users to the audio group, sound was enabled.
38
39 Thanks for the help.
40
41 --
42 Valmor