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 1RkG4j-0002YD-CH for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 09 Jan 2012 14:19:50 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 473F621C165; Mon, 9 Jan 2012 14:19:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yw0-f53.google.com (mail-yw0-f53.google.com [209.85.213.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F10421C15E for ; Mon, 9 Jan 2012 14:18:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yhpp34 with SMTP id p34so591122yhp.40 for ; Mon, 09 Jan 2012 06:18:37 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; 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; bh=181tnsTT6jD0ilBwkEid420qfSUJ1v+Oh6jGF7Zc5nM=; b=eHyKmJYdWZqSf/VUhDaJiKavT6Lyhk4YUWrs6Mha5TQalKavGR2cfAHnvGVtMRN/ZN Kh3PlP53RJ2tELs1yto46w2f80BGXCEiyps60snyIxBfV2TNvWRP8aL6inR6dhWUfNZS xTm47iZO2VO+xoM0TGYvLRgrtbQbyFNYkgsDA= Received: by 10.236.80.74 with SMTP id j50mr9447855yhe.2.1326118717951; Mon, 09 Jan 2012 06:18:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-65-0-65-42.jan.bellsouth.net. [65.0.65.42]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id u47sm103018817yhl.0.2012.01.09.06.18.36 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 09 Jan 2012 06:18:37 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4F0AF73B.4070605@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2012 08:18:35 -0600 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20120104 Firefox/7.0.1 SeaMonkey/2.4.1 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] Re: removal of esound References: <4F0A5619.3040801@hfigge.myfqdn.de> <4F0A8D55.1000202@hfigge.myfqdn.de> <20120109102611.1a27301d@hactar.digimed.co.uk> <4F0AC58B.70002@hfigge.myfqdn.de> <4F0ACD5B.6000008@hfigge.myfqdn.de> <4F0ADDC8.1090900@gmail.com> <4F0AE19E.5000001@hfigge.myfqdn.de> <4F0AEA61.3040202@gmail.com> <4F0AEFE6.20403@hfigge.myfqdn.de> <4F0AF643.60705@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4F0AF643.60705@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 534401fd-e979-4334-be9b-d8953bf80dd9 X-Archives-Hash: b146c6d87b4e184bb0d5f6e7ea0e4f4d Dale wrote: > Hartmut Figge wrote: >> 'and such' also works here. *g* >> >> alsa is enabled in the kernel and i have these packages installed: >> >> hafi@i5_64 ~ $ eix -I --only-names alsa >> media-libs/alsa-lib >> media-sound/alsa-headers >> media-sound/alsa-utils >> media-sound/alsaplayer >> >> May it be that you have other packages regarding alsa installed also? If >> the notification works for you and you are only using alsa, then >> perhaps... :) >> >> Hartmut > > I have these installed: > > root@fireball / # eix -I --only-names alsa > media-libs/alsa-lib > media-plugins/gst-plugins-alsa > media-sound/alsa-headers > media-sound/alsa-utils > media-sound/alsamixergui > root@fireball / # > > The difference is: gst-plugins-alsa and alsamixergui. I just wonder > if alsamixer has something muted? Have you ran alsamixer to check > it? It can run on a console. You should have that installed > already. It is part of alsa-utils. The master channel and the PCM > channel is the important ones. Be careful tho, it can play sounds > that are pretty loud. If it is muted, you can hit the M key to unmute > it. It toggles. > > Dale > > :-) :-) > Also, I don't know if this is done on a per user setting or system wide. Make sure you run it as your user and not root. Otherwise it may not work right. 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"