Audio

[amaltos1]

I only have sound with Limewire that's it . No other media application or web page such as youtube outputs any audio, it would seem driver and mixer setting are alright because i have audio through Limwire.

[gapan]

Could it be that limewire is using OSS and is blocking all other apps? Have you tried playing anything with exaile or some other player with limewire off?

[amaltos1]

I tried using Exaile and Mplayer . Exaile appears to open and play MP3 but no sound. Mplayer when I attempt to open MP3 I get Error "Could not open/initialize audio device->no sound".

[gapan]

Try running

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aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Noise.wav

right after you reboot. Don't launch anything before that. What do you get?

[amaltos1]

aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Noise.wav
Playing WAVE '/usr/share/sounds/alsa/Noise.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 48000 Hz, Mono

But no Sound

I uninstalled limewire and ran Noise.wav still no sound ran in init 3 still no sound.
i installed frostwire and it plays MP3's with sound , what is it with these apps. different from everything else.
They are using sound card : SB live?[Unknown](alsa mixer) in case it helps.

Do i need to install a sound blaster driver? or assign card to other programs ?

Thank you for your assistance

[gapan]

Do you have more than one sound card in your system? Could it be that sound is being output to the other one?

[JRD]

I agree with Gapan's supposition. For me, the second sound card is...the micro of my webcam, which is seen as a soundcard.
Take a look here : http://www.salixos.org/wiki/index.php/H ... _Alsa_card

[thenktor]

Output of "lspci" please

[amaltos1]

That was it 2 sound cards ,I pulled the one I wasn't using anyway and rebooted,problem solved. I had plugged speakers in other card and didn't hear anything I thought other programs were trying to use other card but other card was blocking/interfering with other programs some how. my OSS and ALSA mixer settings are in sync now as well.

,Thanks

[xman]

Hi.
All they have to run after startup:

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modprobe snd-sb16

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alsamixer

So getting live sound card.
There is a solution to the OS automatically load the driver?

I agree with Gapan's supposition. For me, the second sound card is...the micro of my webcam, which is seen as a soundcard.
Take a look here : http://www.salixos.org/wiki/index.php/H ... _Alsa_card

Unfortunately, this failed to help.



Thank you in advance for your help.