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 1QYB5u-0000pY-CR for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 19 Jun 2011 06:02:52 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3BEAE1C06A for ; Sun, 19 Jun 2011 06:02:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A94D41C014 for ; Sun, 19 Jun 2011 05:06:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QYAD2-0001DC-Vy for gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 19 Jun 2011 07:06:08 +0200 Received: from ip68-231-22-224.ph.ph.cox.net ([68.231.22.224]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 19 Jun 2011 07:06:08 +0200 Received: from 1i5t5.duncan by ip68-231-22-224.ph.ph.cox.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 19 Jun 2011 07:06:08 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> Subject: [gentoo-amd64] Re: no sound in firefox java Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2011 05:05:58 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <20110618001831.GA13718@crud.chemoelectric.org> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip68-231-22-224.ph.ph.cox.net User-Agent: Pan/0.134 (Wait for Me; GIT 2acef4c branch-testing) Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 49737375c9298e550e1d476772215daf 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. >=20 > If I mplayer -ao pulse, it opens the sound okay, but no sound is audibl= e > 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=20 the apps and the hardware that can break, and I don't need it, so from my= =20 perspective I'm better off without it. As such I know little about it. However, I *DO* know one of the frequent= =20 issues with alsa is that it starts with everything muted by default. You= =20 have to unmute and set the volumes to something reasonable, then if you=20 want it to keep that instead of coming up muted at each boot, you must=20 setup something to set it back to the saved settings. (The GUI desktops=20 normally handle it pretty much automatically, so they're "something", or=20 setup alsactl to run and set the saved settings at boot, for console- users. I believe Gentoo's alsa initscript does that if you put it in a=20 runlevel.) A lot of folks don't know that and think their audio is broken, even tho=20 it's simply muted by default. I've no idea if pulse is similar, tho it would make sense, given you=20 don't want something blaring unexpectedly so mute-by-default is a very=20 good policy, but if it is, have you checked that it's not simply muted? --=20 Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman