From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QYIaP-0002iU-Rn for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 19 Jun 2011 14:02:50 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 75C5D1C0D6 for ; Sun, 19 Jun 2011 14:02:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yx0-f181.google.com (mail-yx0-f181.google.com [209.85.213.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 862E31C0CF for ; Sun, 19 Jun 2011 13:57:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yxd30 with SMTP id 30so2986969yxd.40 for ; Sun, 19 Jun 2011 06:57:18 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=2zbiB2uiwrKGua0K/rtnuz16TyhRf8I54eJVM7MjcGY=; b=Ty2Xy7du2/hcsrM+sqCPA9HYovWYpHMhodsKXQISC2DEID1oqeKEmY5+KtHHshcQWJ EMpYE4XVYazzBPk2wE0HN6pTbYYs/Cxn565u5ub/aGIf0+PsvAPaHlYCWoPZqrXTYaqd gxvgW5Qxz10QqvbN/ZHW8n1VqSAzl32T+lz0Q= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; b=SB1VlmXqQURL9BX2eU12I+Gm+DnTYkppHo8WwylJ6VOQNydoB/JBgOxX+lIVmCuSz/ JoqaFpMeGDiqo+PYLgSbXSU/LJlhcwuHJj5IUHSxTFCb1Pm4V+8hAM2xyj764GXUcbqn EsGqTQdCylAv/7GqxD/PQ6dxnYkBskQBFdRDU= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.150.118.41 with SMTP id q41mr4487020ybc.314.1308491837991; Sun, 19 Jun 2011 06:57:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.150.185.5 with HTTP; Sun, 19 Jun 2011 06:57:17 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <20110618001831.GA13718@crud.chemoelectric.org> Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2011 23:57:17 +1000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: no sound in firefox java From: Daiajo Tibdixious To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 648bb73f4e7ab6e772c169c230095add On 6/19/11, Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> wrote: > Daiajo Tibdixious posted on Sun, 19 Jun 2011 13:48:23 +1000 as excerpted: > >> I installed pulseaudio, added the pulseaudio use flag, and rebuild with >> --newuse. >> I went thru logged out & in >> from kde, >> and got no sound at all. >> Rebooted and still no sound, in any application. >> >> If I mplayer -ao pulse, it opens the sound okay, but no sound is audible >> if I mplayer -ao alsa it can't find the library, I think thats because >> of the rebuild with pulseaudio use flag. >> There is no /dev/dsp device (which is the oss compatibility device). > > I believe Barry and I disagree on pulse. It's yet another layer between > the apps and the hardware that can break, and I don't need it, so from my > perspective I'm better off without it. > I've no idea if pulse is similar, tho it would make sense, given you > don't want something blaring unexpectedly so mute-by-default is a very > good policy, but if it is, have you checked that it's not simply muted? Yeah, checking mute/volume is part of the debugging process. At the moment I only have 1 master volume, not the whole rack of volumes in AlSA's mixer, but its not muted nor too low to hear. I think my problem is that my sound card is not defined to pulse, can't find out what to do about it. pulse did seem like a solution to my initial problem. Anyway, I'm hoping solving this problem will help me with my original problem (sound in all but firefox java applet).