James Ausmus wrote: > > [snip] > > First off - do you have PulseAudio running? If so, for HW/ALSA testing > purposes, shut it down. Second, check your mixer settings to determine
No I don't have it installed. > if your volume levels are appropriate. A great quick CLI app for this is > alsamixer (media-sound/alsa-utils) - first start the alsasound service > (sudo /etc/init.d/alsasound start), then run alsamixer - set your > volumes to about 80%, and unmute all channels (use the 'm' key to toggle > mute), then restart the alsasound service to save your volume levels > (sudo /etc/init.d/alsasound restart), then add the alsasound service to > your boot runlevel (sudo rc-update add alsasound boot). This will set it > up to restore these volume levels on every startup (it will also save > your *current* volume levels on every shutdown, so don't mute, shutdown, > and expect to be unmuted after starting back up). > Followed all steps after emerging alsa-utils > Now, double-check that PulseAudio is not running (ps -elf | grep -i > pulse), and kill it if it is. > > Then run: > > aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav Tried this instead -> aplay /usr/lib/mozilla-thunderbird/res/samples/test.wav ALSA lib confmisc.c:768:(parse_card) cannot find card '0' ALSA lib conf.c:3513:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_card_driver returned error: No such file or directory ALSA lib confmisc.c:392:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings ALSA lib conf.c:3513:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat returned error: No such file or directory ALSA lib confmisc.c:1251:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name ALSA lib conf.c:3513:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such file or directory ALSA lib conf.c:3985:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such file or directory ALSA lib pcm.c:2211:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default aplay: main:608: audio open error: No such file or directory > > If you hear sound - great, ALSA and your sound HW are working, and Flash No sound yet. > audio will almost certainly start magically working. If not, please post > the output of: > > aplay -l > aplay -L > -> aplay -l **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices **** card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: STAC92xx Analog [STAC92xx Analog] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 -> aplay -L default:CARD=Intel HDA Intel, STAC92xx Analog Default Audio Device front:CARD=Intel,DEV=0 HDA Intel, STAC92xx Analog Front speakers surround40:CARD=Intel,DEV=0 HDA Intel, STAC92xx Analog 4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers surround41:CARD=Intel,DEV=0 HDA Intel, STAC92xx Analog 4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers surround50:CARD=Intel,DEV=0 HDA Intel, STAC92xx Analog 5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers surround51:CARD=Intel,DEV=0 HDA Intel, STAC92xx Analog 5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers surround71:CARD=Intel,DEV=0 HDA Intel, STAC92xx Analog 7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers null Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture) I am using hal-0.5.12_rc1-r8. Do I need to do any hal config? Thanks for the help. -- Valmor