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From: Daniel Wagener <stelf@×××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Sound with xfce4 and Firefox
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:53:30
Message-Id: 20100312115228.0f601482@stelf-pc
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Sound with xfce4 and Firefox by dhk
1 On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:18:03 -0500
2 dhk <dhkuhl@×××××××××.net> wrote:
3
4 > Daniel Wagener wrote:
5 > > On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:29:09 -0500
6 > > dhk <dhkuhl@×××××××××.net> wrote:
7 > >
8 > >> I don't use sound very often, but recently I noticed when I play
9 > >> news videos in Firefox there isn't any sound coming through the
10 > >> headphones. It's an Intel 32bit box with xfce4. I don't have
11 > >> speakers hooked up just headphones and it use to work a few months
12 > >> ago. I suspect it stopped working after an upgrade. Is this
13 > >> something to do with xfce4, Firefox, or something else?
14 > >>
15 > >> Thanks,
16 > >>
17 > >> dhk
18 > >
19 > > Already checked mixer/volume settings?
20 > >
21 > >
22 >
23 > I don't see a mixer/volume in the menu, but I do have
24 > xfce-extra/xfce4-volumed and gnome-base/gnome-volume-manager
25 > installed. Is there suppose to be a mixer? I would think so, but I
26 > thought xfce4 may work differently. Is there a mixer/volume I need
27 > to emerge? Maybe it got uninstalled.
28 >
29 > Thanks,
30 > dhk
31 >
32 >
33 >
34
35 alsa comes with alsamixer, you can find it via the console
36 and i also meant the volume of the video itself - just to be sure
37 any other applications that produce a sound?