On 11/05/2009 11:43 PM, Valmor de Almeida wrote:
[...] I think I am getting close. My video player is vlc and I reemerged with alsa support; that pulled only the relevant alsa packages. Then downloaded a flv video and played; no sound.[...]
Try to enable the alsasound service (as root): rc-config add alsasound default To start it without having to reboot: /etc/init.d/alsasound start Restart X and try again.