Using ALSA..realplay doesnt produce sound
 

i have installed alsa-driver-1.0.8 and my kernal is 2.6.
my sound card description as follows,
Identification
Vendor: ‎Intel Corp.
Description: ‎82801 AC97 Audio Controller
Media class: ‎MULTIMEDIA_AUDIO

I have just installed it, and when i did , aoss realplayer, it said
bash-2.05b$ aoss realplay
bash: aoss: command not found
I have just installed ALSA, do i have to do anything else to make my realplayer produce some sound.
I tried www.bbc.co.uk, and i can view the video clip clearly but the sound doesnt produce.Could someone please try to give me some clue what more to do.
Thanks alot for all your help guys..
Regards Azzath.

You may also have to run alsamixer and unmute your channels as well as set your default levels. You'll also want to issue an alsactl store to save those settings across a reboot.
good luck.

Thank you Guru for ur reply on my pevious post,
I tried to run alsamixer, so i did a
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bash-2.05b$ alsamixer &
[1] 15590
bash-2.05b$
alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such file or directory
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and thats the message i got. Why isnt the alsamixer not installed when i installed
alsa-driver-1.0.8 ? Do i have to do this seperately?
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i asked for alsamixer location and i did a
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bash-2.05b$ locate alsamixer
/usr/share/man/man1/alsamixer.1.bz2
/usr/bin/alsamixer
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So do i have to install this aswell?seperately..

I would appriciate any help on this ...
Thanks in Advance to all...

Azzath.

I believe alsamixer is part of the utilities or tools packages. If it's not installed you can install it or use another mixer. Could you post the output of /sbin/lsmod please?
good luck.

Guru, this is the output, thank you.
bash-2.05b$ /sbin/lsmod
Module Size Used by
vfat 11168 0
fat 39776 1 vfat
binfmt_misc 8744 1
cpufreq_powersave 1312 0
speedstep-ich 3692 0
speedstep-lib 3364 1 speedstep-ich
nfsd 189408 8
exportfs 4736 1 nfsd
lockd 58344 2 nfsd
sunrpc 127652 2 nfsd,lockd
md5 3584 1
ipv6 230916 14
rfcomm 32348 0
l2cap 19876 5 rfcomm
bluetooth 39076 4 rfcomm,l2cap
i810_audio 33236 1
ac97_codec 16844 1 i810_audio
soundcore 7008 2 i810_audio
ndiswrapper 104144 0
af_packet 16072 2
floppy 55088 0
ds 17572 2
yenta_socket 18624 1
pcmcia_core 59972 2 ds,yenta_socket
thermal 9928 0
tc1100-wmi 5028 0
processor 13736 1 thermal
fan 2756 0
button 4624 0
battery 7044 0
ac 3204 0
3c59x 35240 0
ide-cd 37280 0
cdrom 37724 1 ide-cd
loop 12520 0
nls_iso8859-15 4224 5
ntfs 147964 1
supermount 34804 1
intel-agp 19584 1
agpgart 27752 1 intel-agp
nvram 6856 0
tsdev 5824 0
joydev 8032 0
evdev 7648 1
usbmouse 4256 0
usbhid 41088 0
sd_mod 19232 0
usb-storage 65504 0
scsi_mod 104044 2 sd_mod,usb-storage
usblp 10592 0
uhci-hcd 28752 0
usbcore 103172 8 ndiswrapper,usbmouse,usbhid,usb-storage,usblp,uhci-hcd
ext3 120680 1
jbd 49080 1 ext3
bash-2.05b$

Looks like your system loaded the oss modules. Try kmix or aumix to unmute your sound. Or you can install the alsa packages and drivers, after removing the oss modules.
good luck.

Peacedog thank you....
Guru, my main purpose in trying to install ALSA is to see is realplayer is producing any sound when i am trying to view news clips on BBC, other than that i can listen and adjust the sound using KMix....I havent got a clue why the sound oesnt produce.
when i try to play LQ radio mp3 files, the player exits..

I really am not sure whats going on and now i am kinda lost what more to do...
I hate to give up...
Please help me if you can to get my realplayer working cuz i miss the news and songs on some sites which will only play with realplayer
Thanking you for your time and effort.
Regards Azzath.

I narrowed this down to about 30 threads, you should find something here that helps.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...der=descending

good luck.

to:Peacedog, thank you for your patients and help buddy,
I will try to look in to every possible way to solve this cuz i need realplayer to work :)

I will let you know if any results come up.
cheers,
bye..
Regards Azzath.