Valmor de Almeida wrote: > Hello, > > I would appreciate some guidance in getting sound working such that I > can listen to an adobe flash video. I am using firefox (have the adobe > flash plugin installed which plays video but no sound) and a pretty > updated gentoo laptop. > > Thanks in advance. > > -- > Valmor > > PS: never tried to get sound working. > >
Try lspci -v and see if the sounds card is using a driver. If it is, then the kernel is working and it is recognizing the sound card. This is what mine looks like: 01:0a.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 0a) Subsystem: Creative Labs SBLive! 5.1 eMicro 28028 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 18 I/O ports at b000 [size=32] Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1 Kernel driver in use: EMU10K1_Audigy The last line is what you look for. If you see something like that then it could be as simple as the sound is muted. I have no idea why but as a general rule, the sound is muted when you install. I use KDE so I had to unmute with Kmix and alsamixer to get mine working. If it doesn't show a driver in use, then you have to either build a module or a new kernel if you want it built in. In that case, let us know what kind of sound card you have. The output from lspci would be great. Dale :-) :-)