Thanks vote the responses, the community is the best part of linux. Clarification, I have soundeverywhere else but amarok. Ill post the extra info when I'm at home tonight.Also thinks for making me aware of a gui for alsa, that will help.
I know that I do have two sound cards though. On Mar 6, 2011 2:41 PM, "Ben Chavez" <[email protected]> wrote: > Please if there is an answer to this problem I would like to heard it. > Please let me know since I have been interested on install Ubuntu on my > sony vaio also but when I booted it from the liveCD and tested if > everything worked I noticed there was not sound and that stop me from > install it > > Thank you. > > On 03/06/2011 12:58 PM, Ireneusz Gierlach wrote: >> If you have more than 1 sound card a great program to check if they >> work with pulse audio is pavucontrol. >> >> Also if Amarok just skips to the next track, then It might be the >> codec issue. make sure you have them installed. >> I'm sorry but that's all of the original things I can give you. >> >> On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 5:29 AM, Scott Vargovich >> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> Let me ask a few questions first: How many sound cards does your >> computer have? If you have more than one, Amarok may be sending >> sound to the wrong device. Is there any sound at all? Can you >> watch a youtube video - is there sound with it? If yes, then >> there's something jacked in Amarok's configuration. I haven't >> used Amarok for some time and don't remember how to configure it. >> >> If you've determined no answers to all the above questions and the >> computer is entirely silent, the first thing I would suggest is to >> see if your sound module loaded properly. From the root prompt, >> type 'lsmod | grep snd' (without the quotes) and post the output. >> If that is determined to be loading properly, the issue is with >> the configuration of ALSA. I use ubuntu based Linux, and I know >> there's some differences in the area of ALSA configuration between >> Fedora and Ubuntu. You'd want to search the repos and install a >> program called something like alsaconfig or alsaconf - also >> alsamixergui or alsamixer. >> >> I wish I could do better than giving you the flow-chart for >> finding the culprit, but that's the way to determine the issue. >> Once we have the output of the command I referenced above, we'll >> have a better idea of what you're up against. >> >> HTH, >> Scott >> >> >> On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 3:24 AM, Zech Harper <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> Hello everyone. apprentice linux user here. I've recently >> installed >> Fedora 14 KDE on my sony vaio VPCEB33FM and everything has worked >> great. I've uninstalled the k office and installed libre >> office and >> also grabbed what has always been one of my favorite programs, >> Amarok, >> as well as getting all available updates and bug fixes. The >> only other >> change from the default installation is google chrome. >> >> However, amarok has no sound. I've checked alsamixer, >> installed the >> xine back end stuff, I have all the dependencies, and I am >> getting the >> information in Amarok when music is currently playing as if >> everything >> is fine. The only other thing I can think of is that there are >> pulse >> audio settings enabled for both Gnome and KDE, but I have no >> idea how >> to disable the gnome part of that. >> >> Long story short, does anyone have any advice to get Amaork >> running? 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