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From: frares@×××××.com
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: Re: [gentoo-user] recovering plain alsa [WAS:]: no sound on upgraded Firefox from 7 to 8 - using
Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2011 14:29:25
Message-Id: 001636ed6db9d7f50504b3957727@google.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] recovering plain alsa [WAS:]: no sound on upgraded Firefox from 7 to 8 - using pulse audio by Dale
1 On , Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > Francisco Ares wrote:
3
4 > Thank you all who replied my last messages.
5
6 > Now I am back to plain alsa, but no two programs can use it at the same
7 > time. Alsa drivers are built on the kernel, and I have the following
8 > packages installed:
9
10 > media-libs/alsa-lib-1.0.24.1:0
11 > media-plugins/gst-plugins-alsa-0.10.35:0.10
12 > media-sound/alsa-utils-1.0.24.2-r1:0.9
13
14 > The two first ones were puled by emerging "alsa-utils".
15
16 > I have lost "/etc/asound.conf", and I guess this is the key. Looking to
17 > which package it belongs to, "equery" found none. I have put a quite
18 > simple version (as explained here:
19 > http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/ALSA#Default_Sound_Device)
20 > http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/ALSA#Default_Sound_Device%29>::
21
22 > pcm.!default { type hw card Intel }
23 > ctl.!default { type hw card Intel }
24
25 > Any hints on how can I get all programs to mix up as before?
26
27 > Thanks again
28 > Francisco
29
30 > --
31 > "If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you
32 > and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have
33 > one idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two
34 > ideas." - George Bernard Shaw
35
36
37
38 > I build my audio drivers into my kernel. I also have these alsa related
39 > packages installed:
40
41 > root@fireball / # equery list *alsa*
42 > * Searching for *alsa* ...
43 > [IP-] [ ] media-libs/alsa-lib-1.0.24.1:0
44 > [IP-] [ ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-alsa-0.10.35:0.10
45 > [IP-] [ ] media-sound/alsa-headers-1.0.24:0
46 > [IP-] [ ] media-sound/alsa-utils-1.0.24.2-r1:0.9
47 > [IP-] [ ] media-sound/alsamixergui-0.9.0.1.2-r4:0
48 > root@fireball / #
49
50 > See if yours looks something like this. I can watch videos and other
51 > programs play sound at the same time.
52
53 > Dale
54
55 > :-) :-)
56
57 > --
58 > I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or
59 > how you interpreted my words!
60
61 > Miss the compile output? Hint:
62 > EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n"
63
64
65 In another machine I have at the office, sound works great without ever
66 having pulse installed. And there is no "/etc/asoud.whatever"
67
68 I will recompile the kernel to remove a loop device that is going default
69 every time.
70
71 Will post the results.
72
73 Thanks
74 Francisco

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