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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA - No Sound
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 00:19:02
Message-Id: 4D3CC460.3080902@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA - No Sound by dhk
1 dhk wrote:
2 > My make.conf Use is: USE="-arts -doc -evo -firefox -kde -qt -qt3 -qt4
3 > -java X alsa cairo cdr device-mapper extras gdu gnome gtk jpeg png
4 > policykit sqlite svg tiff udev xml xulrunner xvmc"
5 >
6 > Everything is plugged in correctly and checked many times. As far as I
7 > know there aren't any sound daemons running, this is a new install, only
8 > a couple of weeks old. Everything looks like it should be working, the
9 > only thing is I don't hear anything. Since I hear other things I'm sure
10 > I'm not deaf and can rule that out. This is a basic set up with lvm2,
11 > gnome, firefox, thunderbird, and openoffice. That's about it, nothing
12 > fancy.
13 >
14 >
15
16 Take a look at mine, and the command I used to get it. Keep in mind,
17 there are also USE setting that are set by your profile not just make.conf.
18
19 root@fireball / # emerge --info | grep USE=
20 USE="3dnow 3dnowext X aac acpi alsa amd64 aml auto-hinter automount
21 avahi berkdb bzip2 cairo cddb cdr chroot cleartype cli clucene
22 consolekit corefonts cracklib cups curl cxx dbus dri dvd dvdr emboss
23 encode escreen esd exif fam ffmpeg firefox flac fortran gdbm gdu gif
24 gimp gkrellm gnutls gphoto2 gpm gtk hal hbci hddtemp iconv ipv6 java
25 javascript jbig jpeg jpeg2k justify kde lcms ldap libnotify libwww
26 logrotate loop-aes mad mdnsresponder-compat melt mikmod mmx mng modules
27 mp3 mp4 mpeg mplayer mudflap multilib mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly
28 nsplugin offensive ofx ogg opengl openmp pam pango parport pcre pdf perl
29 png policykit ppds ppp pppd python qt3 qt3support qt4 readline sasl sdl
30 seamonkey semantic-desktop session sift smp spell sse sse2 ssl
31 startup-notification svg sysfs syslog tcl tcpd threads tiff tk truetype
32 type1 udev unicode usb vcd vorbis webkit wma wmf x264 xcb xml xorg xv
33 xvid yahoo zeroconf zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp
34 atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968
35 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx
36 via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare
37 dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter
38 mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol"
39 APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon
40 authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default
41 authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi
42 cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter
43 file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime
44 mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir
45 usertrack vhost_alias" CAMERAS="canon ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df
46 interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc"
47 GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt
48 gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore
49 rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx"
50 INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad
51 cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text"
52 LINGUAS="en_US en" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18"
53 USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nv nvidia" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock
54 lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee
55 tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account"
56 root@fireball / #
57
58 Compare those and see if you see something. Note the ALSA settings
59 too. I'm not sure you need the same as me but you may need something to
60 enable the sound.
61
62 Dale
63
64 :-) :-)