Simple sound question

weppnesp · 11-25-2002, 10:37 PM

I have no sound coming from my speaker while playing an audio CD on "cdrom1" (a CD writer), but it recognizes it as an audio CD and will play the tracks. It works fine on "cdrom" (a DVD player), it plays the tracks and sound comes through the speaker.

I have redhat 7.3 with soundblaster Live, running on Gnome , but have also tried the KsCD. Alsa is also installed.

Thanks in advance....

Steve Weppner

eggs · 11-25-2002, 11:05 PM

CD audio works through a special cable, all (at least all the ones I have seen) sound cards have only one cd audio in and thus only one cd drive can be hooked up at the same time. So, if you want to play audio cd's on the cdrw drive you need to move the cable from the other drive to the cdrw. Otherwise you have to play cd's in the dvd drive

weppnesp · 11-27-2002, 05:37 PM

Hi eggs,

Thanks for the response. Your answer sounds logical but it is a dual boot machine and the audio CD function works well using Windows XP (both cdrom and cdrom1 play). So if Windows can do it, then shouldn't Linux be able to do it? Is it a driver prolem? Is it a software problem? It looks like hardware is ruled out, so perhaps wrong forum...sorry..

Thanks again,
Steve Weppner

finegan · 11-27-2002, 06:37 PM

Yeah, Linux should be able to do it, sounds like one of those goofy software issues, like do you have the CD muted in the gnome and/or alsa mixer?

Cheers,

Finegan

weppnesp · 12-04-2002, 10:12 PM

Thanks for the response. Checked all mixers, turned everything up. The "CD" mixer only has one preset input on Gnome, KDE, Alsa. What is strange is that the program CDRoast only recognizes the CD player that does not work through the speaker (cdrom1), but does not recognise the DVD player (IDA)

Oh well, one of those minor problems which remains unsolved...

Steve Weppner