On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 09:44:54PM +0100, Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers wrote: > On Mon, 16 Jan 2012 10:14:36 +0000 > Martin Ward <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I take it that you had sound before and you are a member of the audio > > group? Hate to be silly but are the sound channels muted? > > "there are no silly questions" :-) My sound system is functioning on the host > partition ( LFS 6.4, BLFS ) but not yet in my new LFS7 + BLFS I am working > on. Yes, I am member of the audio group, and as far as I can see through > "alsamixer", my chanels are not muted. However, kmixer is also not working > yet. So I am intending to rebuild everything concerning sound ( alsa, etc ) > and see if I made somewhere a mistake. I shall come back to this posting. In > the meantime thank you very much. > Edgar
Are you using PulseAudio ? I tried that on my other machine, and never got it working. From memory, as well as correcting an LFS bootscript (the /dev/shm permissions - see the LFS errata if it applies to you) I had to run one of the pulse progs as a daemon, but never managed to get it to stay alive, and never got it to accept that I had an available sound card. Gave up, found a much simpler solution to getting a graphical volume control on gtk. That was with pulse added on after the desktop had been completed - in theory, it ought to be able to use alsa. Conversely, on my current gnome-3 build (Pulse comes before anything that might use it) I had no sound except from 'aplay' until I'd got a working gnome desktop (I built mpg123, xine and vlc before gnome). Now that I've got a gnome session running, sound just works. So, my assumption is that Pulse may need extra steps to get it to work outside a gnome desktop. If you aren't using Pulse, sorry for the noise. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
