Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Sabyasachi Ghosh <ssgosh@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] sound (?) but no sound
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 15:41:59
Message-Id: a80fed4e0706220810g3cd3df51oaf9e6091a4ff36b7@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] sound (?) but no sound by Thierry de Coulon
1 I usually disable the kde sound system and use a command line player (like
2 aplay or mplayer) for the event notifications..seems to work fine with me..
3
4 On 6/19/07, Thierry de Coulon <tcoulon@××××××××.ch> wrote:
5 >
6 > Hello,
7 >
8 > I've managed to emerge the gentoo base, X and KDE and all are running
9 > fine. My
10 > last problem is sound. After several attemps (with the kernel ALSA module
11 > and
12 > ALSA-driver), I've got my SB Live correctly loaded with ALSA Driver - at
13 > least there is no error message. I didn't load any module explicitely. The
14 > system loads emu10K1-gp
15 >
16 > However, I have no sound. The KDE control center does show options for
17 > midi on
18 > the SB Live 5.1, I've unmuted everything I could in alsamixer, kmix shows
19 > there is a sound device there.
20 >
21 > But kinfocenter says there is no information about the sound device, and
22 > when
23 > I start Amarok, it says there is "no suitable demux plugin".
24 >
25 > Everything has been compiled with the arts and oggvorbis flags, and I did
26 > an
27 > emerge -e word to ensure everything had been compiled with the actual
28 > flags.
29 >
30 > What am I missing?
31 >
32 > Thierry
33 >
34 > --
35 > gentoo-user@g.o mailing list
36 >
37 >