Hello everyone,

I'm new to linux..(second day)I'm running Mandrakelinux 10.1 and I can get around the OS, use the shell (sort of), and make some shell scripts. My problem deals with sound. I've read all topics and nothing has come up for my problem. I'll try to explain in as much detail as I can.

I have sound. Plain and simple. I can listen to music files etc. The only thing I can't hear, is the sound for applications. For example, I was surfing the net and was looking at some flash movies that have sound. I could hear nothing. I thought that it was a problem with the browser. So I go and try to play a game..then I realised I can't hear any of the sound the game provides.

I would like to be able to hear what I'm missing. Can someone please help me out?

Thanks

This happened to me once, but never again. What I did was just reboot my computer and got my sound back.

Also, type kmix (type it again if you get something like ASLA not loaded) in your terminal and check out your settings. Maybe something is muted.

umm i might beable to help u

the sound may be turned down or the input is turned down for that type ps there should be green circle above the sound slider it should be green if not click it and slidetr up1/2 way you could try all the way but a sound may ocrr so i don't reconend it


is your sound configers in the configeration tool

'is your sound configers in the configeration tool'

sorry but I do not understand what you mean by that. I'm still a beginner...

I restarted my comp and checked on kmix and everything is green. I still don't have sound for applications though...

i happend right after i install i think the defult is down all the way or muted so unmute and rasie it if what the other guy said diden't work

click on kmix and make the all un green

click welcome and click on configuration tools

im running mandrake 10.0 so it might be slightly different

okay, I made all the little buttons green.

One thing though, when I open KMix, and then select the input tab, one of the red circles at the bottom is lit up. All the circles at the top are green.

I deleted the welcome icon on my desktop...

I'm having exactly the same problem in Debian Sarge.

Hopefully I can add some information that will help a solutoin come to us.

I also can run Xine and XMMS and the such... but my two examples are Realplayer and Battle for Wesnoth... both dead silent.

All my KMix stuff is turned on and my system beeps at me when appropriate, windows maximizing and such (man I need to adjust those settings), but some applications that I know are supposed to make sound, no sound.
(If yo uconsider this a threadjack please just ignore, I figure it seems like the same issue)

It might be that Realplayer and Battle... uses OSS whereas Xine and XMMS uses ALSA.
As root, do a 'lsmod | grep oss ' . If it turns up empty, try 'modprobe snd-pcm-oss ; modprobe snd-mixer-oss'

- Peder