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

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

James Ausmus wrote:
> 
> 
[snip]
> 
> First off - do you have PulseAudio running? If so, for HW/ALSA testing
> purposes, shut it down. Second, check your mixer settings to determine

No I don't have it installed.

> if your volume levels are appropriate. A great quick CLI app for this is
> alsamixer (media-sound/alsa-utils) - first start the alsasound service
> (sudo /etc/init.d/alsasound start), then run alsamixer - set your
> volumes to about 80%, and unmute all channels (use the 'm' key to toggle
> mute), then restart the alsasound service to save your volume levels
> (sudo /etc/init.d/alsasound restart), then add the alsasound service to
> your boot runlevel (sudo rc-update add alsasound boot). This will set it
> up to restore these volume levels on every startup (it will also save
> your *current* volume levels on every shutdown, so don't mute, shutdown,
> and expect to be unmuted after starting back up).
> 

Followed all steps after emerging alsa-utils

> Now, double-check that PulseAudio is not running (ps -elf | grep -i
> pulse), and kill it if it is.
> 
> Then run:
> 
> aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav

Tried this instead

->  aplay /usr/lib/mozilla-thunderbird/res/samples/test.wav
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 error: 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
aplay: main:608: audio open error: No such file or directory


> 
> If you hear sound - great, ALSA and your sound HW are working, and Flash

No sound yet.

> audio will almost certainly start magically working. If not, please post
> the output of:
> 
> aplay -l
> aplay -L
> 

-> aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: STAC92xx Analog [STAC92xx Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

-> aplay -L
default:CARD=Intel
    HDA Intel, STAC92xx Analog
    Default Audio Device
front:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
    HDA Intel, STAC92xx Analog
    Front speakers
surround40:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
    HDA Intel, STAC92xx Analog
    4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers
surround41:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
    HDA Intel, STAC92xx Analog
    4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround50:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
    HDA Intel, STAC92xx Analog
    5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers
surround51:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
    HDA Intel, STAC92xx Analog
    5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround71:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
    HDA Intel, STAC92xx Analog
    7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers
null
    Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)


I am using hal-0.5.12_rc1-r8. Do I need to do any hal config?

Thanks for the help.

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Valmor