Re: [gentoo-user] No sound. Please, help!

[gevisz <gevisz@gmail.com>]

вс, 18 окт. 2020 г. в 21:15, Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>:
>
> gevisz wrote:
> > вс, 18 окт. 2020 г. в 17:20, Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>:
> >> gevisz wrote:
> >>> No sound at least in Firefox. Tried it on youtube. Skype is currently
> >>> uninstalled. So, I cannot check using it.
> >> Just a thought.  Are you sure that everything is unmuted?  Years ago,
> >> all the sound control software, Kmix, alsa and others, default to mute.
> >> If just one of them is muted, no sound.  I seem to recall when I did my
> >> install on this rig that I had to unmute the sound in three places,
> >> Kmix, alsa and one other that I can't recall the name of.  I think I had
> >> to turn up the volume on alsa as it was set to a really low level once
> >> it was unmuted.  Usually, I turn all of them to the max except the one I
> >> mainly use.  In my case, Kmix is the one I use to really control things
> >> since it sits on the panel thingy.  The others are set at the max.
> >>
> >> It's a silly thing but thought it worth a mention just in case there is
> >> a muted setting somewhere.
> > Thank you for your input. Yes, it seems that something is muted but what?
> > I have no KDE and no kmix installed. No pulseaudio.
>
> Type in alsamixer in a console or whatever you use and hit tab twice.  I
> suspect you have that installed.  You should have a text version, like a
> console uses, and a gui version, that should work in any DM.  Pick your
> poison and see if anything there is muted or the volume is set really
> low, like 1 out of 100 or something.  I think hitting the "m" key
> toggles the mute.

I am sorry to confess that I should use M to unmute a channel in
alsamixer (as I did about 14 years ago) and thought that arrows up and
down do all the work. :(

So, now the problem has been solved and I can return to the custom kernel.

One last question: Is it better to compile the driver for my HDMI
audio device or not, if I am not going to use HDMI audio output?

And thank you all who replied to this thread.

> I think it's the arrow keys to increase or decrease volume
> and move from channel to channel.  It has been a while
> since I used that so can't recall.
>
> Let's just hope it is that simple.
>
> Dale