Also what sound card have you got ? I have a soundblaster Live 256 and I had this problem because I had connected the CD Audio via the Digital output of the Drive rather than the more conventional Analogue outputs.
By default on the Soundblaster drivers, Digital inputs are muted hence no CD sound.
Have you checked the volume setting of the CD inputs on your soundcard (use Kmix or someting similar)
CD sound does not require any interaction of the software drivers or computer apart from setting the volume as they are simply a passthrough to the soundcard output.
On Friday 04 October 2002 22:20, MJ Ray wrote:
BenEBoy mail@psychoferret.freeserve.co.uk wrote:
8.0. My machine beeps at me, makes whooshing noises when KDE starts up and XMMS works fine. Unfortunately, I can't get any sound to word when playing CDs. gtcd will recognise a CD and bring up the artist/title info but pressing play doesn't do anything. KsCD works a bit better. [...]
Things to check:
- do you know that the CD is connected to the sound system by a cable
internally (ie, has it ever worked?)
- has the KDE sound system got your soundcard exclusively? If so, you
need to either stop it, or make the CD player use it. I know how to do that for esd (with esddsp) but I don't know arts... anyone?
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On Saturday 05 October 2002 19:44, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
Also what sound card have you got ? I have a soundblaster Live 256 and I had this problem because I had connected the CD Audio via the Digital output of the Drive rather than the more conventional Analogue outputs.
By default on the Soundblaster drivers, Digital inputs are muted hence no CD sound.
Have you checked the volume setting of the CD inputs on your soundcard (use Kmix or someting similar)
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Cheers everyone for the advice,
I've checked gmix and kmix and everythings alright, but I have no idea what soundcard I have, it's an integrated one with the motherboard (and I haven't got a clue what motherboard I've got either, evesham was a bit lax on supplying manuals and stuff). Everything works OK in windows though. Hence me being a bit stumped. I did another test in Win a minute ago and everything is fine so it's not a dodgy jack either.
Think I'll play around with some none alsa drivers, see if that helps...
ta,
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