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On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 1:43 PM, Valmor de Almeida <val.gentoo@×××××.com>wrote: |
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I think I am getting close. My video player is vlc and I reemerged with |
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> alsa support; that pulled only the relevant alsa packages. Then |
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> downloaded a flv video and played; no sound. But got some clue. |
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First off - do you have PulseAudio running? If so, for HW/ALSA testing |
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purposes, shut it down. Second, check your mixer settings to determine if |
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your volume levels are appropriate. A great quick CLI app for this is |
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alsamixer (media-sound/alsa-utils) - first start the alsasound service (sudo |
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/etc/init.d/alsasound start), then run alsamixer - set your volumes to about |
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80%, and unmute all channels (use the 'm' key to toggle mute), then restart |
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the alsasound service to save your volume levels (sudo /etc/init.d/alsasound |
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restart), then add the alsasound service to your boot runlevel (sudo |
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rc-update add alsasound boot). This will set it up to restore these volume |
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levels on every startup (it will also save your *current* volume levels on |
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every shutdown, so don't mute, shutdown, and expect to be unmuted after |
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starting back up). |
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Now, double-check that PulseAudio is not running (ps -elf | grep -i pulse), |
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and kill it if it is. |
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Then run: |
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aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav |
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If you hear sound - great, ALSA and your sound HW are working, and Flash |
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audio will almost certainly start magically working. If not, please post the |
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output of: |
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aplay -l |
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aplay -L |
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(both of those are L, first one lower case, second upper) |
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HTH- |
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James |