Re: [gentoo-user] recovering plain alsa [WAS:]: no sound on upgraded Firefox from 7 to 8 - using

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

frares@gmail.com wrote:
> On , Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Francisco Ares wrote:
> >
> > Thank you all who replied my last messages.
> >
> > Now I am back to plain alsa, but no two programs can use it at the 
> same time. Alsa drivers are built on the kernel, and I have the 
> following packages installed:
> >
> > media-libs/alsa-lib-1.0.24.1:0
> > media-plugins/gst-plugins-alsa-0.10.35:0.10
> > media-sound/alsa-utils-1.0.24.2-r1:0.9
> >
> > The two first ones were puled by emerging "alsa-utils".
> >
> > I have lost "/etc/asound.conf", and I guess this is the key. 
>  Looking to which package it belongs to, "equery" found none. I have 
> put a quite simple version (as explained here: 
> http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/ALSA#Default_Sound_Device) 
> http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/ALSA#Default_Sound_Device%29>::
> >
> > pcm.!default { type hw card Intel }
> > ctl.!default { type hw card Intel }
> >
> > Any hints on how can I get all programs to mix up as before?
> >
> > Thanks again
> > Francisco
> >
> > --
> > "If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples 
> then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea 
> and I have one idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will 
> have two ideas." - George Bernard Shaw
> >
> >
> >
> > I build my audio drivers into my kernel.  I also have these alsa 
> related packages installed:
> >
> > root@fireball / # equery list *alsa*
> >  * Searching for *alsa* ...
> > [IP-] [  ] media-libs/alsa-lib-1.0.24.1:0
> > [IP-] [  ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-alsa-0.10.35:0.10
> > [IP-] [  ] media-sound/alsa-headers-1.0.24:0
> > [IP-] [  ] media-sound/alsa-utils-1.0.24.2-r1:0.9
> > [IP-] [  ] media-sound/alsamixergui-0.9.0.1.2-r4:0
> > root@fireball / #
> >
> > See if yours looks something like this.  I can watch videos and 
> other programs play sound at the same time.
> >
> > Dale
> >
> > :-)  :-)
> >
> > --
> > I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you 
> understood or how you interpreted my words!
> >
> > Miss the compile output?  Hint:
> > EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n"
> >
>
> In another machine I have at the office, sound works great without 
> ever having pulse installed. And there is no "/etc/asoud.whatever"
>
> I will recompile the kernel to remove a loop device that is going 
> default every time.
>
> Will post the results.
>
> Thanks
> Francisco 

I noticed this in my updates tonight.  This may be what you need to 
install or check into.

[I] media-libs/sdl-mixer
      Available versions:  1.2.11-r1{tbz2} {flac mad +midi mikmod mp3 
playtools static-libs timidity vorbis +wav}
      Installed versions:  1.2.11-r1{tbz2}(07:58:24 PM 12/09/2011)(flac 
mad midi mp3 vorbis wav -mikmod -playtools -static-libs -timidity)
      Homepage:            http://www.libsdl.org/projects/SDL_mixer/
      Description:         Simple Direct Media Layer Mixer Library

 From what it says, it is what mixes sounds.  That's my thinking anyway.

Dale

:-)  :-)

-- 
I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!

Miss the compile output?  Hint:
EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n"