Audigy LS CD Playback and No Sound

KohlyKohl · 11-06-2004, 01:16 PM

Anyone figure out yet how to get cd playback and sound? I know its been brought up many times with no solutions so far. After 6 months I still have not figure it out and its getting very annoying!

Peacedog · 11-06-2004, 06:22 PM

Do you have sound at all, or no sound? Is it just the cdrom? Have you looked at the latest alsa drivers?

http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc...odule=audigyls

good luck.

KohlyKohl · 11-06-2004, 07:32 PM

I guess I could see how you miss read my post. I was just asking if anyone got sound with cd playback to work with the Audigy LS card yet.

Peacedog · 11-07-2004, 04:53 PM

Do you have a sound cable connecting your cdrom to your sound card, or motherboard? Have you tried using xmms to play a cd, I believe you'll need version 1.2.10 if you don't have the sound cable?
good luck.

KohlyKohl · 11-07-2004, 06:20 PM

Of course I have a cable, in fact I have 1 for each of my drivers. Tried XMMS doesn't work either. Muted every combo I could think of tried everything on full volume, still no cd sound.

Peacedog · 11-08-2004, 06:47 AM

I understand you're frustrated, and apologize for the questions rather than solutions, but, with a problem like this there could be a number of things causing the problem.

Are these normal audio cd's, or data cd's with mp3's? Do you have an a cdrom group, and have you added your user to it?
good luck.

KohlyKohl · 11-08-2004, 11:13 AM

I run as root, have since early 90's. They are just normal audio cd's, nothing different about them. Setup worked under windows just fine for both cd drives, so that rules out hardware. Also I have another problem, I need to change the buffer rate under Gnome like you can do under KDE for the sound system. The default buffer makes my sound choppy and unbareable when playing system sounds, but not for other things like games.

Peacedog · 11-08-2004, 12:00 PM

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I run as root, have since early 90's.

I probably don't need to tell you this, but feel obligated. That's a bad idea.

With that said, have you tried playing a cd as a user? Are you using supermount?

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Also I have another problem, I need to change the buffer rate under Gnome like you can do under KDE for the sound system. The default buffer makes my sound choppy and unbareable when playing system sounds, but not for other things like games.

I believe gnome uses esound, you could look into that.

KohlyKohl · 11-08-2004, 01:09 PM

Unless you run a server there is no reason you shouldn't run as root. Anyways, Gnome does use eSound and i have yet to find anything that helps me change the default buffer. I have tried to run as user and there is no cd playback there either.

Peacedog · 11-08-2004, 02:14 PM

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Unless you run a server there is no reason you shouldn't run as root.

You are intitled to your opinion.

Is this a cd burner? Is xmms, or any other program pointing to the correct device?

KohlyKohl · 11-08-2004, 05:11 PM

Yes they point the right device, ones a cd burner the other is a dvd/cd burner.

Peacedog · 11-08-2004, 05:51 PM

What does the /etc/fstab look like? Are the devices recognized as /dev/hdc, or /dev/sda, or possibly /dev/sr0, /dev/sg0? Did you have a look at /etc/group?
good luck.

KohlyKohl · 11-08-2004, 06:12 PM

Yeah, looks fine. Under SuSE they are recognized as really odd names. In 9.2 they are /dev/cdrecorder and /dev/cdrecorder11 in 9.1 it was /dev/cdwriter and /dev/dvdwriter. The default is to mount them as /media/device, but that causes problems so I changed to the normal Linux default of /mnt/device. I've mounted the devices to both and with no success.

Peacedog · 11-08-2004, 06:30 PM

You shouldn't be mounting an audio cd, or you should at least see an error about the file system type. Have you tried simply putting the cd into the drive, and starting a player without trying to mount it?

Also your sig says fc 2, while you reference suse 9.1, and 9.2, which are you actually having the problem with? It may fascilitate looking for bugs? I was unaware that suse 9.2 had been released.
good luck.

KohlyKohl · 11-08-2004, 07:34 PM

version doesn't matter, i've had this problem with redhat, fedora, suse and mandrake. Yeah 9.2 Pro came out a week or so ago. I don't mount the cd, it plays automatically and it works, but there is no sounds.