Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with alsasound

[Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@nyu.edu>]

At Tue, 15 Jul 2008 02:00:08 +0400 Andrew Tchernoivanov <tchernoivanov@gmail.com> wrote:

>>The first tab is devices.  They are all set to autodetect and when I
>>press test on the three playback devices, I do hear sound.
>>
>>The second tab is sounds.  When I click on any of the "Play" boxes
>>*no* sound is produced.  The corresponding files are present and I
>>am in the audio group.
>
> I have the same problem, but I didn't install gnome-audio package (I just
> don't need system sounds). Try to test sounds
> using Applications -> Sound&Video -> MoviePlayer.

I don't have any movies so I tried CD-player and the only thing it can
do is eject the cd.  It doesn't even list the tracks.

So it seems I have 2 problems.  Unable to play system sounds and
inability to recognize audio CDs

The physical cd drive (actually DVD+-RW) does work.  If I place a data
disk in, I can mount it.

thanks for your help,
allan


> On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 1:40 AM, Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@nyu.edu> wrote:
>
>> I have not been able to get alsasound working on my gentoo-gnome
>> system.
>>
>> I followed the gentoo guide and did make progress.
>> From the main (foot) menu,  system --> preference --> sound
>> produces a dialog box with three tabs.
>>
>> The first tab is devices.  They are all set to autodetect and when I
>> press test on the three playback devices, I do hear sound.
>>
>> The second tab is sounds.  When I click on any of the "Play" boxes
>> *no* sound is produced.  The corresponding files are present and I
>> am in the audio group.
>>
>> The machine is a dell optiplex 845.  Lspci shows
>>   00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family)
>>   HD Audio Controller (rev 02)
>>
>> I have the following kernel options set
>>
>> #
>> # Sound
>> #
>> CONFIG_SOUND=m
>>
>> #
>> # Advanced Linux Sound Architecture
>> #
>> CONFIG_SND=m
>> CONFIG_SND_TIMER=m
>> CONFIG_SND_PCM=m
>> CONFIG_SND_HWDEP=m
>> CONFIG_SND_SEQUENCER=m
>> CONFIG_SND_OSSEMUL=y
>> CONFIG_SND_MIXER_OSS=m
>> CONFIG_SND_PCM_OSS=m
>>
>> #
>> # PCI devices
>> #
>> CONFIG_SND_HDA_INTEL=m
>> CONFIG_SND_HDA_HWDEP=y
>> CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_REALTEK=y
>> CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_ANALOG=y
>> CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_SIGMATEL=y
>> CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_VIA=y
>> CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_ATIHDMI=y
>> CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_CONEXANT=y
>> CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_CMEDIA=y
>> CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_SI3054=y
>> CONFIG_SND_HDA_GENERIC=y
>>
>> Any advice/help would be appreciated
>> thanks,
>> allan
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