[ale] Linux/cd sound woes.

Scott Castaline hscast at charter.net
Mon Oct 2 14:35:43 EDT 2006


Is the audio cable from the CD drive hooked up to the sound card or MoBo
in case of embedded?

Does KaMix show a seperate control for CD volume?

HTH
On Mon, 2006-10-02 at 13:55 -0400, Jim wrote:
> I'm running Suse 9.3.  When I plug an audio cd into the machine, an 
> instance of KsCD pops up and seems to indicate that it is playing the 
> tunes, however I don't hear a thing.  KaMix shows the volume at 96% and 
> I know generally audio is working 'cause I get the alert sounds when the 
> system isn't happy, like taDa!  I can also cat .wav files to /dev/dsp. 
> 
> Any suggestions as to how to troubleshoot this beast?  I'm running 
> another system on Debian with the same symptoms except that catting .wav 
> files to /dev/dsp generates the strangest modulated white noise I've 
> ever heard!
> 
> Thanks,
> Jim.
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