Re: [gentoo-user] No sound. Please, help!

[Dale]

gevisz wrote:
> вс, 18 окт. 2020 г. в 17:20, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>:
>> gevisz wrote:
>>> No sound at least in Firefox. Tried it on youtube. Skype is currently
>>> uninstalled. So, I cannot check using it.
>> Just a thought.  Are you sure that everything is unmuted?  Years ago,
>> all the sound control software, Kmix, alsa and others, default to mute.
>> If just one of them is muted, no sound.  I seem to recall when I did my
>> install on this rig that I had to unmute the sound in three places,
>> Kmix, alsa and one other that I can't recall the name of.  I think I had
>> to turn up the volume on alsa as it was set to a really low level once
>> it was unmuted.  Usually, I turn all of them to the max except the one I
>> mainly use.  In my case, Kmix is the one I use to really control things
>> since it sits on the panel thingy.  The others are set at the max.
>>
>> It's a silly thing but thought it worth a mention just in case there is
>> a muted setting somewhere.
> Thank you for your input. Yes, it seems that something is muted but what?
> I have no KDE and no kmix installed. No pulseaudio.
>
>

Type in alsamixer in a console or whatever you use and hit tab twice.  I
suspect you have that installed.  You should have a text version, like a
console uses, and a gui version, that should work in any DM.  Pick your
poison and see if anything there is muted or the volume is set really
low, like 1 out of 100 or something.  I think hitting the "m" key
toggles the mute.  I think it's the arrow keys to increase or decrease
volume and move from channel to channel.  It has been a while since I
used that so can't recall. 

Let's just hope it is that simple. 

Dale

:-)  :-)