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 1N63c2-0008Vd-6v for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:46:58 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2069AE0A49; Thu, 5 Nov 2009 14:46:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yw0-f191.google.com (mail-yw0-f191.google.com [209.85.211.191]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE885E0A49 for ; Thu, 5 Nov 2009 14:46:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ywh29 with SMTP id 29so43309ywh.32 for ; Thu, 05 Nov 2009 06:46:56 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=bYy1UQ678j93mBwo0z5hZk9hslhJQa5owihjBQe8mvo=; b=vTq5IfzgMzxNaLcYeCYcd0xUNZbuwsZnur2oeSUV9pRMRkc80k6fu6DU+SaSNHEXz4 rvINmw0YqKy5+c6kXe58aY+GNHnO4Jm0zidSdZyziXQZWzf4FcVkbo6ccpwERkBPTFaw NGdFL0ezp1G+zJETjQ+FMa3b775L37Alqijno= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=CEmtB5O41hjmLMSf8BdAZFnFfm7qXVnklE6AHvZKmgDslfff1XCHgYYgq0Tdysj/eO r8dJUAkE6xgmq6sx9fnWeI26PuitZwKPaabKlygNn+HpKv/p8Pmu/AxxbPoKmD9ZQ7xp NaKEp8WE+H2fLpPpdldvivWMEKH9hn1IwFWEw= Received: by 10.100.200.14 with SMTP id x14mr2370305anf.52.1257432416468; Thu, 05 Nov 2009 06:46:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.0.200? (dcpl.ornl.gov [160.91.170.68]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 7sm780899ywc.21.2009.11.05.06.46.55 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 05 Nov 2009 06:46:55 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4AF2F33A.4080709@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:46:02 -0500 From: Valmor de Almeida User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20091019) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] need sound to listen to a adobe flash video References: <4AF20E08.9070008@gmail.com> <4AF2029C.5060105@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4AF2029C.5060105@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 201a8b73-f504-4c47-92cb-952856ba8c51 X-Archives-Hash: 1171d0c5745a5d70956acd140a4d9218 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