Re: [gentoo-user] my gentoo amd64 does not have sound

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Bruce Hill wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 12:07:52PM -0500, Willie Wong wrote:
>   
>> On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 10:35:20AM -0500, Penguin Lover Marcus Wanner squawked:
>>     
>>> On 12/15/2009 7:19 AM, Pint??r Tibor wrote:
>>>       
>>>> unmute?
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> To unmute sound at all levels, run mplayer and turn the volume up (mplayer 
>>> is special that way, other programs don't have the same effect). 
>>>       
>> Mplayer? Seriously? 
>>
>> Why not use amixer (purely commandline) or alsamixer (quasi-gui)?
>> That's what they are intended for!
>>
>> Cheers, 
>>
>> W
>>     
>
> Or why not go ahead and do things The Alsa Way (TM) and use speaker-test -
> command-line speaker test tone generator for ALSA:
>
> Run "speaker-test -Dplug:front -c2 -t wav" in one terminal while you adjust
> your levels in alsamixer in another terminal. Yes, use a tabbed terminal, such
> as rxvt-unicode. ;)
>   

OK.  This is funny as heck.  I ran this.  I really need to reverse my 
speakers.  Anybody remember the old cartoon where the guy had the shirt 
sleeves marked left and right?  lol  I guess I need to do that too.

For the record, I had to use alsamixer to unute mine too.  It was the 
master that was muted which mplayer has nothing to do with, at least not 
on my system anyway.

Dale

:-)  :-)