[gentoo-user] no sound

[gentoo-user] no sound

[Andrey Vul]

I open mplayer, mpg321, vlc, or flash (youtube) and I have no sound.
ALSA is working.
Hardware is working.
Already did alsaconf + alsamixer.

Any suggestions?

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Re: [gentoo-user] no sound

[David Sveningsson]

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Andrey Vul skrev:
> I open mplayer, mpg321, vlc, or flash (youtube) and I have no sound.
> ALSA is working.
> Hardware is working.
> Already did alsaconf + alsamixer.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 

Have you unmuted the channels (using alsamixer)? They are muted by default.

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Re: [gentoo-user] no sound

[Andrey Vul]

On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 3:29 AM, David Sveningsson <ext@sidvind.com> wrote:
> Andrey Vul skrev:
>> I open mplayer, mpg321, vlc, or flash (youtube) and I have no sound.
>> ALSA is working.
>> Hardware is working.
>> Already did alsaconf + alsamixer.
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>>
>
> Have you unmuted the channels (using alsamixer)? They are muted by default.
Yes, I have.

screenshot of alsamixer:
┌────────────────────────────[AlsaMixer v1.0.17 (Press Escape to
quit)]─────────────────────────────┐
│ Card: CA0106
                             │
│ Chip:
                             │
│ View: [Playback] Capture  All
                             │
│ Item: IEC958
                             │
│
                             │
│
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│
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│
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│
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│              ┌──┐     ┌──┐      ┌──┐     ┌──┐      ┌──┐     ┌──┐
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│              │  │     │  │      │  │     │  │      │  │     │  │
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│    │OO│
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│             80<>80   80<>80    80<>80   80<>80    80<>80   80<>80
80<>80   80<>80    80<>80    │
│ < IEC958 > IEC958 C IEC958 F  IEC958 R IEC958 U  Analog C Analog F
Analog R Analog S  CAPTURE    │
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└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────


-- 
Andrey Vul

A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?

Re: [gentoo-user] no sound

[Nickolay Hodyunya]

On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 03:07:14AM -0400, Andrey Vul wrote:
> I open mplayer, mpg321, vlc, or flash (youtube) and I have no sound.
> ALSA is working.
> Hardware is working.
> Already did alsaconf + alsamixer.
> 
> Any suggestions?
did you forget to connect your headphones? 

-- 
Regards, Nickolay Hodyunya.

Re: [gentoo-user] no sound

[Andrey Vul]

On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 11:42 AM, Nickolay Hodyunya <nickolayh@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 03:07:14AM -0400, Andrey Vul wrote:
>> I open mplayer, mpg321, vlc, or flash (youtube) and I have no sound.
>> ALSA is working.
>> Hardware is working.
>> Already did alsaconf + alsamixer.
>>
>> Any suggestions?
> did you forget to connect your headphones?
It's not headphones, it's a 5.1 system and all the connections are
seated tightly. And it's *on*.


-- 
Andrey Vul

A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?

Re: [gentoo-user] no sound

[Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto]

> I open mplayer, mpg321, vlc, or flash (youtube) and I have no sound.
> ALSA is working.
> Hardware is working.
> Already did alsaconf + alsamixer.
>
> Any suggestions?

To be really sure ALSA is working, I suggest you try aplay. Notice
that aplay is minimalistic, and does not support formats like vorbis
(AFAIK). Feed a wav to it. Example:
aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Right.wav
Both aplay and /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Right.wav come from
media-sound/alsa-utils

You have a lot of verbosity with aplay -v

Also notice that many mixer controls have not only a volume bar, but
also a  setting of muted or unmuted. A mixer control may show its bar
at 100% but be muted, which could be confusing if you are not familiar
with alsamixer. In my case least, the relevant mixer controls for a
wav file are "Master" and "PCM". Both are stereo, both have volume
bars, but only "PCM" has a mute/unmute setting.
I don't know if this is your case, this wasn't clear from your
screenshot. Can you get a png screenshot and send directly to my
email?. Of course, it would be better if the alsamixer screen was
maximized when you take the screenshot.

Also, to test with another OS could be useful. Do you have any LiveCD?
-- 
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Re: [gentoo-user] no sound

[Andrey Vul]

On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 4:36 PM, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
<please.no.spam.here@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I open mplayer, mpg321, vlc, or flash (youtube) and I have no sound.
>> ALSA is working.
>> Hardware is working.
>> Already did alsaconf + alsamixer.
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>
> To be really sure ALSA is working, I suggest you try aplay. Notice
> that aplay is minimalistic, and does not support formats like vorbis
> (AFAIK). Feed a wav to it. Example:
> aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Right.wav
> Both aplay and /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Right.wav come from
> media-sound/alsa-utils
>

Oh.
SPDIF output (IEC958) was unmuted and all the output got routed there.
Muted SPDIF and everything works now.



-- 
Andrey Vul

A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?