hey i have a gateway 500s and its sound has been working fine with other distros like slackware suse elx ubuntu and ark. well i tried to install gentoo (i did it finally) then when i got it all configured to my liking i installed amarok and then i realized that i get no sound out of my speakers if someone can help me that would be grea!!!!

also ido not know what my hardware is but it is all stock with 512mb ram

try running alsamixer and see if your sound is turned down or if CD, PCM, MASTER are muted.

Also, did you build the soundcard things in kernel or as modules?
Did you run 'alsaconf'
Test that 'alsamixer'

If you did build it with modules, did you put the line 'ALSA_CARDS="viaxx820" in make.conf (change to your hardware)?

well actually i do not have anything relating to alsa on my computer and it says that there is not a sound system installed but my installation froze in the audio section and then i had to redo all of it without an audio system and my question is 'is there a package i can emerge from the internet and it will be upgraded and my sound card will just work'


P.S off topic but is there to scan for every update availible for my computer and if so what is it?

ok so now i have my sound running i had to use emerge alsa-utils and emerge alsa-driver and it started to work. well i have mplayer and everything i need to run a dvd installed but then i realized i have no cd/dvd drive recognition i have searched for hours and tried mounting a lot of things like cdrom cdrom1 dvd dvdrw and not one is reckognised what do i do here? want any more info on what the problem is just ask because it looks like my gentoo installation is just barebones and nothing els.

Your DVD-rom is probably listed as /dev/sdb or something. Try following:

Replace <foo> with hdc sdb sdc

Also, check that your kernel has support for your dvdrom.

it says you must specify the filesystem type... i am lost now what file system type is a cdrom


P.S. thanks for responding and i got it to work with a dvd without the file system thing and it is hdc thanks so much Zmyrgel

Try specifying it as:
IIRC the filesystem of CDROM:s is something like iso9881 or something similar. Try searching for it but I think that "-t auto" will take care of it. Just make sure you have enabled the cdrom filesystem support in kernel.

Filesystem -> cdrom filesystem -> there choose the options

ok so i added


/dev/hdd /mnt/cd iso9660 ro,auto,unhide


to /etc/fstab and it says


mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdd,
missing codepage or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so

and since i am kind of new at not automounting this is all very confusing because then i also put in

/dev/hdc /mnt/dvd auto ro,auto,unhide


and what do you know it worked but why wont it work for my audio cd's
i really like music but if i can not hear it i get angry that is why i am still in the audio problem thread

I'd say, change the ro,auto,unhide to ro,noauto,users

the "auto" states it tries to automatically mount it on boot which isn't necessary with CD's. I've never heard of that unhide option, though. I think you need the users line in the fstab as it will allow users to mount the cdrom.

Other than that, check the permission to the folder your mounting the cd, the /mnt/dvd. Does it allow access to users?

Have you checked the kernel options for sure?

sorry i havent responded in a while but my first install of gentoo worked but someone came to my computer and just scerewed with it for a while while i was emerging amarok again but they deleted my xorg-x11 files somehow and now i had to reinstall gentoo because they somehow scerewed up portage and now i can't get it to work but thanks for the help and when i get it fixed i will start asking questions again

All I can say at this point is Sorry about the bad luck on that one. I have had that one pulled on me before and it is so frustrating. When asked why I responded that yes It is easy for me to reinstall but I had many hours getting it to look a certain way, to act a certain way.

well nevermind i am converting my install of slack ware into gentoo i already have a new kernel the gentoo file system and portage installed and if there is anything els i am missing please let me know because it is running very slowly but i can still emerge packages ins a true slackware install

Your converting Slackware installation to gentoo
Wouldn't it be easier to just backup all custom files and make fresh install of Gentoo

Well, either case. Good luck to your effort. I'm just swithing from slack to gentoo. Still thinking on switching back to slack though.... they're both good distro's... why can't I just choose one