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From: Andrey Vul <andrey.vul@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] no sound
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 20:58:14
Message-Id: e38d12ff0810281358x6c3c49f8ge6d4b1dd7b42e1e8@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] no sound by Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
1 On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 4:36 PM, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
2 <please.no.spam.here@×××××.com> wrote:
3 >> I open mplayer, mpg321, vlc, or flash (youtube) and I have no sound.
4 >> ALSA is working.
5 >> Hardware is working.
6 >> Already did alsaconf + alsamixer.
7 >>
8 >> Any suggestions?
9 >
10 > To be really sure ALSA is working, I suggest you try aplay. Notice
11 > that aplay is minimalistic, and does not support formats like vorbis
12 > (AFAIK). Feed a wav to it. Example:
13 > aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Right.wav
14 > Both aplay and /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Right.wav come from
15 > media-sound/alsa-utils
16 >
17
18 Oh.
19 SPDIF output (IEC958) was unmuted and all the output got routed there.
20 Muted SPDIF and everything works now.
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25 Andrey Vul
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27 A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
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