CD sound but nothing else

sidkdbl07 · Apprentice Joined: 25 May 2003 Posts: 184

I installed ALSA sound packages according to the Gentoo docs. I can play CD's with Grip but XMMS, aplay, ogle and all my other apps are unable to play sound.

XMMS looks like it is playing sound (I can see the visualization) but no sound comes out.

I have all of my channels set to 90% and unmuted.

What can I try to get my sound working?

Dbl07

puggy · Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2003 9:12 pm Post subject:

Have you compiled your applications with alsa support? i.e. with USE flag "alsa" set. Have a look at your applications which might require re-emerging by

Brown Eyed Boy · Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2003 9:22 pm Post subject:

Hi. It could also be that some, but not all, of the volume controls are turned down. Might be worth playing with alsamixer (or one of the GUI frontends). I found tweaking the volumes to be quite hit-and-miss and the exact volume controls you need can also depend on your method of speaker connection (e.g. digital or analogue).

~Brown Eyed Boy

puggy · Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2003 9:29 pm Post subject:

sidkdbl07 · Apprentice Joined: 25 May 2003 Posts: 184

I had these things done already:

- I had alsa in my USE variable in /etc/make.conf
- I had emerged alsa-xmms and set the output plugin to Alsa
- I had Master, PCM and CD channels (in alsamixer) at 90% and unmuted

the output of 'emerge -epv world | grep alsa' is as follows:

puggy · Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2003 2:55 pm Post subject: Re: CD sound but nothing else