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From: gevisz <gevisz@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] No sound. Please, help!
Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2020 16:26:50
Message-Id: CA+t6X7fXm9fDDr0f=3jmAngGPRBaz4iiejyzvrgg98pjYVhGbw@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] No sound. Please, help! by Dale
1 вс, 18 окт. 2020 г. в 17:20, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>:
2 > gevisz wrote:
3 > >
4 > > No sound at least in Firefox. Tried it on youtube. Skype is currently
5 > > uninstalled. So, I cannot check using it.
6 >
7 > Just a thought. Are you sure that everything is unmuted? Years ago,
8 > all the sound control software, Kmix, alsa and others, default to mute.
9 > If just one of them is muted, no sound. I seem to recall when I did my
10 > install on this rig that I had to unmute the sound in three places,
11 > Kmix, alsa and one other that I can't recall the name of. I think I had
12 > to turn up the volume on alsa as it was set to a really low level once
13 > it was unmuted. Usually, I turn all of them to the max except the one I
14 > mainly use. In my case, Kmix is the one I use to really control things
15 > since it sits on the panel thingy. The others are set at the max.
16 >
17 > It's a silly thing but thought it worth a mention just in case there is
18 > a muted setting somewhere.
19
20 Thank you for your input. Yes, it seems that something is muted but what?
21 I have no KDE and no kmix installed. No pulseaudio.

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Re: [gentoo-user] No sound. Please, help! Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>