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 1NhOzp-0006qw-9Y for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 16 Feb 2010 15:05:57 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6DBFAE0A9B; Tue, 16 Feb 2010 15:05:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com (fg-out-1718.google.com [72.14.220.158]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BA20E0AC0 for ; Tue, 16 Feb 2010 15:05:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id e12so105109fga.10 for ; Tue, 16 Feb 2010 07:05:32 -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=JMtW3aA8Znd/H5Vh9nR6ca3iiUAo37c3jCo118N4+1Q=; b=jTJzT1dfZuZyjzJHZywzLfKoktlOCSJPQAOQ7cA/SN4dyMaL+f+VUAqNJlzccbXRTp 3rM84iXsB3o3vvQPROahn5ERzPuNsDieLME2x1cV4rZWctlgydXRGu17oJB0GZT2HjFI h3SVzlQzCILHHncvpcalL4N0aakzepg9ecaLM= 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=WDYsgZui8xfSIvsogSjFCOt00SziD8s+AfGWDNNTfYxsfsTGZ1CyBQLTWobNiLwn9R WgGrLRj6c+jVXbbmuOeaKryEHgjYFhvV8TQYFs+bpRuv7iREDethoSL5g3zdWGpkJc82 HkBEiMsYB6IrdMMVh74Qh1NHuhgUAYaXZhBPo= Received: by 10.87.63.3 with SMTP id q3mr11720984fgk.53.1266332732487; Tue, 16 Feb 2010 07:05:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?131.111.115.220? (mvmaclap04.ch.cam.ac.uk [131.111.115.220]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id d6sm6821449fga.14.2010.02.16.07.05.30 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 16 Feb 2010 07:05:31 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4B7AA8AC.2010103@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 15:16:12 +0100 From: bn User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20091224) 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] Can't hear anything. :-( References: <20100216145412.GA3456@muc.de> In-Reply-To: <20100216145412.GA3456@muc.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 0594c57a-a1fd-4416-8abe-cefe952892ba X-Archives-Hash: 0550e5b3070a3144882134abd6b98af5 Alan Mackenzie ha scritto: > Hi, gentoo, > > I'm trying to get sound to sound on my new Gentoo box, following the > "Gentoo Linux ALSA Guide". Everything seems to be working fine, except > no sound is coming out of my loudspeakers. > > I've checked the obvious things: the speakers are plugged in, switched > on and connected to the appropriate socket on my motherboard (the light > green one). > > I have drivers for my motherboard's sound chips compiled into my kernel, > and they are correctly identified by alsamixer. With alsamixer I've > unmuted various things and turned up the volume. > > madplay appears to play an mp3 file I have. Just that no actual sound > comes out. > > One other strange thing: the titles under the "volume bars" in alsamixer > are very different from the ones in the document: Instead of "Master / > Headphone / Tone / Bass / Treble / 3D Contr / PCM", I've got " Master / > Headphon / Front / Front Mi / Surround / Center / LFE / Side / Line / > Mic / Mic Boos / S/PDIF / S/PDIF D / Beep". Why is this? In > particular, I'm missing the "PCM" volume bar which the documentation > says is so important to unmute. > > What am I missing here? > > Thanks in advance! > Have you tried this? http://www.pubbs.net/gentoo/200912/63563/ I had a similar problem, I hope it helps. Drivers are one thing, but codecs another. m.