Suse 10

Please help me before I break my computer. I miss Windows!

The CD plays but no sound - in both xmms and K's CD. I do get sound in Kaffeine. I've run alsaconf - and the sound card is detected - and the sample sound is fine. I've read posts about alsamixer - I can run this but have no clue what to do. I have ensured that the volume is on in Kmix.

Thanks

Check and maybe change how xmms plays audio CDs, many system makers now do not install the audio cable from the drive to the sound interface (analog) since Windows plays audio CD digitally.

Start xmms press the Ctrl+P key combo
Select CD Audio PLayer and click on the Configure button
Select Play mode: Digital audio extraction
Click on OK button (exits window) then Apply button and finally the OK button

cool, thanks lenard
now i have sound at least through xmms.

my only issue now is for some reason i get only sound through the left earphone. i have tried 3 pairs of headphones and this is the case with each one so I'm sure its not a earphone problem. Both earphones come with some background static too - but in the left ear you can hear the CD.

I checked the balance in xmms player and its 50/50 and made sure all the volumes werer up in the alsamixer.

If anyone knows what to look at to get sound in the right earphone, please let me know. Thanks!

Hi,
I don't use Suse, I use Fedora Core, but in the past i have faced such a problem. The way i fixed it was by changing my Audio output to OSS from alsa. I guess alsa does have some problems with select softwares. I am not sure if this is the correct solution but it worked for me!!

in kscd have you made sure that its set tp play digital output, I dotn get sound via kscd on mine unless I have it enabled.

thanks. How do I change my Audio output to OSS from alsa ?

thanks michael.

How do you set K's CD to digital output? I went into the COnfigure menu and can't find this option.

extras> configure>cd player
then its the bottom section of the window

it has an address bar is which you can enter where your cdrom drive is and directly underneithe that there is a check button saying 'use direct digital playback'

theres a drop down menu entritles CD drive - there are 2 options /dev/cdrom and /media/sr:0. its defaulted to /dev/cdrom
under this there are 2 dropdown menus:

Select audio backend
Select audio device

These are both grayed out no matter what I try I can't get them to become active

there is anothe checkbox below this called "Allow encoding selection". Its checked and set to UTF-8

still dont see the digital playback thing anywhere

KsCD 1.5 KDE 3.4.2 level "b" Suse 10.0

thanks

here is a screen shot of what you should have up

http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h12/tuxedup/kscd.jpg

another way to do it is:

open up konquer and then in the address bar go to
/home/yourusername/.kde/share/config

then open up the file called:
kscdrc

and in there change the line saying:
DigitalPlayback=

to:
DigitalPlayback=true

If it is not already present add it then you should have digital playback.

If it does not work then you can simply open that file again and remove the line or change it back to false.

michael,

thanks for reply - I must have different version because this option doesn't exist in the configuration window, not does it a appear in /home/yourusername/.kde/share/config file.