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the soundcard detection tool plays the sound. but i can't play my cds. bet you've never heard that one before. lol...seriously, it is very frustrating. i have worked through enough linux growing pains that i know i can set the stuff up if i stick to it and get help. so thanks for replying to my post.
I am using a Creative Audigy 2 NX, which is USB. I just installed a fresh copy of Fedora Core 3, and I don't get any sound. It is detected, but when I click the 'test sound' button I don't get anything. There is a red light that comes on, on the unit, and it normally goes off when I boot into Windows, but it stays red when I boot into Linux (it's also meant to go red when you mute it). I'm very new to Linux, and I don't even know how to switch between ALSA and the other sound card drivers (I know ALSA supports the Audigy 2 NX), so I'm wondering if Linux is not using the ALSA drivers. I've heard many people talking about getting wrong sampling rates, but I'd like just to get some sound first. If anybody can shed some light as to how to get my sound working, I'd be very grateful.
BuckRogers01: You probably should've started a new thread for this, but most likely you just haven't unmuted the system. By default, alsa mutes the sound card. Use amix to fix this.
Barleykorn: glad you got it working. The biggest advantage of the wire from the cd-rom drive to the sound card is it takes no ram/cpu/etc to play audio. (Well, almost none. It just sends commands to the cd-rom and sound card, which take it from there.)
Distribution: slamd64 2.6.12 Slackware 2.4.32 Windows XP x64 pro
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Windows uses digital playback by default. Linux most apps use analog playback. To enable (digital without the wire) open xmms go to preferences and cd playback and change to digital. I prefer alsamixer to amixer.
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