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

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

Dale wrote:
...[snip]...
> 
> At least you are past the kernel part and know the hardware should be
> working.  I had to install alsamixergui to unmute mine.  Since I have a
> somewhat bloated install, I'm not sure how you would unmute yours.  You
> may have to install some kind of alsa to do that.  I'm not really sure
> in this situation.
> 
> Here is a link about alsa:
> 
> http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Matrix:Module-intel8x0
> 
> I read in there that cards are muted by default.  It says it this way: 
> "Now adjust your soundcard's volume levels. All mixer channels are muted
> by default. You must use a native mixer program to unmute appropriate
> channels, for example alsamixer from the alsa-utils package."   I would
> do a emerge -p alsa-utils and just see if it is going to try to install
> the kitchen sink or just it and perhaps a couple others that you can
> live with.
> 
> That help?
> 
> Dale
> 
> :-)  :-) 
> 
> 

I think I am getting close. My video player is vlc and I reemerged with
alsa support; that pulled only the relevant alsa packages. Then
downloaded a flv video and played; no sound. But got some clue.

[0x9e5e950] main demux error: no meta reader module matched "any"
mdb:382, lastbuf:0 skipping granule 0
mdb:382, lastbuf:0 skipping granule 0
mdb:382, lastbuf:0 skipping granule 1
mdb:382, lastbuf:0 skipping granule 1
ALSA lib confmisc.c:768:(parse_card) cannot find card '0'
ALSA lib conf.c:3513:(_snd_config_evaluate) function
snd_func_card_driver returned
 error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib confmisc.c:392:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings
ALSA lib conf.c:3513:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat
returned erro
r: No such file or directory
ALSA lib confmisc.c:1251:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name
ALSA lib conf.c:3513:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer
returned error
: No such file or directory
ALSA lib conf.c:3985:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such file or
directory
ALSA lib pcm.c:2211:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default
mdb:511, lastbuf:382 skipping granule 0
mdb:511, lastbuf:382 skipping granule 0
mdb:511, lastbuf:382 skipping granule 1
mdb:511, lastbuf:382 skipping granule 1
QPainter::begin: Paint device returned engine == 0, type: 1
QPainter::begin: Paint device returned engine == 0, type: 1

Will follow the gentoo online doc on alsa to troubleshoot. Seems I will
have to revisit my hal configuration?

Thanks,

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Valmor