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

[Valmor de Almeida <val.gentoo@gmail.com>]

Dale wrote:
> 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
> 
> :-)  :-)
> 
> 

Here is lshw info

        *-multimedia
             description: Audio device
             product: 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 1b
             bus info: pci@0000:00:1b.0
             version: 02
             width: 64 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=HDA Intel latency=0 module=snd_hda_intel


and lspci

00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High
Definition Audio Controller (rev 02)
        Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel

I did built the sound support into the kernel.

I run a lean gentoo install; no desktop; only a window manager
(windowmaker). Nothing related to alsa is installed. I installed adobe's
flash player plugin which ended up in ~/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so

When I play a flash video I don't see an option for turning on audio.

Thanks,

--
Valmor