Re: [gentoo-user] need sound to listen to a adobe flash video

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Valmor de Almeida wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I would appreciate some guidance in getting sound working such that I
> can listen to an adobe flash video. I am using firefox (have the adobe
> flash plugin installed which plays video but no sound) and a pretty
> updated gentoo laptop.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> --
> Valmor
>
> PS: never tried to get sound working.
>
>   

Try lspci -v and see if the sounds card is using a driver.  If it is,
then the kernel is working and it is recognizing the sound card.  This
is what mine looks like:



01:0a.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 0a)
        Subsystem: Creative Labs SBLive! 5.1 eMicro 28028
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 18
        I/O ports at b000 [size=32]
        Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1
        Kernel driver in use: EMU10K1_Audigy



The last line is what you look for.  If you see something like that then
it could be as simple as the sound is muted.  I have no idea why but as
a general rule, the sound is muted when you install.  I use KDE so I had
to unmute with Kmix and alsamixer to get mine working. 

If it doesn't show a driver in use, then you have to either build a
module or a new kernel if you want it built in.  In that case, let us
know what kind of sound card you have.  The output from lspci would be
great.

Dale

:-)  :-)