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From: Xi Shen <davidshen84@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] my gentoo amd64 does not have sound
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 02:02:13
Message-Id: 53e35fd50912151700i16181a70l42d16f85a210a26d@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] my gentoo amd64 does not have sound by Dale
1 thanks you all. i have tried to press the mute button, the volume up
2 button, adjust the volume in mplayer, etc. but still got nothing. and
3 my kernel have the intel codec compiled at modules.
4
5 anyway, i will retry again...
6
7
8 On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 6:51 AM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote:
9 > Bruce Hill wrote:
10 >>
11 >> On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 12:07:52PM -0500, Willie Wong wrote:
12 >>
13 >>>
14 >>> On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 10:35:20AM -0500, Penguin Lover Marcus Wanner
15 >>> squawked:
16 >>>
17 >>>>
18 >>>> On 12/15/2009 7:19 AM, Pint??r Tibor wrote:
19 >>>>
20 >>>>>
21 >>>>> unmute?
22 >>>>>
23 >>>>>
24 >>>>
25 >>>> To unmute sound at all levels, run mplayer and turn the volume up
26 >>>> (mplayer is special that way, other programs don't have the same effect).
27 >>>>
28 >>>
29 >>> Mplayer? Seriously?
30 >>> Why not use amixer (purely commandline) or alsamixer (quasi-gui)?
31 >>> That's what they are intended for!
32 >>>
33 >>> Cheers,
34 >>> W
35 >>>
36 >>
37 >> Or why not go ahead and do things The Alsa Way (TM) and use speaker-test -
38 >> command-line speaker test tone generator for ALSA:
39 >>
40 >> Run "speaker-test -Dplug:front -c2 -t wav" in one terminal while you
41 >> adjust
42 >> your levels in alsamixer in another terminal. Yes, use a tabbed terminal,
43 >> such
44 >> as rxvt-unicode. ;)
45 >>
46 >
47 > OK.  This is funny as heck.  I ran this.  I really need to reverse my
48 > speakers.  Anybody remember the old cartoon where the guy had the shirt
49 > sleeves marked left and right?  lol  I guess I need to do that too.
50 >
51 > For the record, I had to use alsamixer to unute mine too.  It was the master
52 > that was muted which mplayer has nothing to do with, at least not on my
53 > system anyway.
54 >
55 > Dale
56 >
57 > :-)  :-)
58 >
59 >
60 >
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64 --
65 Best Regards,
66 David Shen
67
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