sound not working

**crashandburn0420** · 10-25-2005

i just got everything to work, but the sound isnt. when i go to volume controll it says

No volume controll elements and/or devices found.

**psic** · 10-25-2005

Have you emerged alsa-driver and alsa-utils? You then use alsa-conf, as described on this page:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/alsa-guide.xml

**crashandburn0420** · 10-25-2005

those docs are kinda confusing, i emerged alsa-drivers and alsa-utils but i just dont get the rest. if any one can help me here is my

Code:

lspci -v | grep -i audio

Code:

0000&#58;00&#58;1f.5 Multimedia audio controller&#58; Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM &#40;ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M&#41; AC'97 Audio Controller &#40;rev 02&#41;

**psic** · 10-25-2005

Have you tried running alsaconf? Try it, if it works, follow the instructions on the page I gave you from "ALSA Initscript" on.

Basically, there are two ways to get alsa to work, with the alsa-driver (which is what I did, as I used genkernel) or within the kernel (which I'll let someone else explain). If you used genkernel while installing, emerging the two mentioned packages should be enough.

**crashandburn0420** · 10-25-2005

thank you it works

**psic** · 10-25-2005

Glad to hear

Now turn up the music! Oh, and to change the volume/etc., use "alsamixer", and "alsactl store" to store those settings.

**crashandburn0420** · 10-25-2005

is it required to use that for controlling the volume or can i just use the default volume controll?

**psic** · 10-25-2005

You can use any volume control you wish, you'll find that there are many ways in linux to do the same thing. What I mentioned is just what I do in gentoo, as I have a very minimal environment, but use whatever suits you

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