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Hi,
I am experiencing problems getting sound to play in KsCD under Mandrake 10.1 Official. After having some problems burning using k3b I changed the settings for my cdrw to run under scsi emulation (added 'hdc=ide-scsi' to lilo.conf). My cdrw/rom settings are now (etc/fstab):
/dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom2 auto mask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec,users 0 0
/dev/sr0 /mnt/cdrom3 auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec,users 0 0
Having performed this change I am unable to play sound using the cd devices. Any input on how can I troubleshoot my sound configuration?
SlackerLX, sorry for being silly - I found out how to use alsamixer just after posting the question..
samael26, I ran alsaconf and reconfigured my soundsystem, but still no sound from the cdrom... I checked the sound settings in KDE and realised that no audio device was selected, so I selected ALSA there. But again, no sound is coming from the cdrom?
So, Alsamixer helped or it did not. please let know. if still did not then why don't you check wire that connects CD and soundcard. maybe solution is that simple
Seems like running alsaconf helped after all - my speakers are alive now but the sound is very scratchy... Any ideas of what might cause the bad quality of the sound??
It would appear that my cdrw, which I set to run under scsi emulation had good sound but not my cdrom while still running in normal ide mode. Changing the config so that also the cdrom is set to scsi solved the problem and the sound is now good!
I will experient a bit more with the sound settings as it seems that setting the volume control very high on KsCD will lead to scratchy sound so it's a matter of finding a suitable combination of using the controls of the external speakers and the audio-playing application.
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