Weird Situation

postal26 · 11-17-2004, 10:06 PM

Heres my situation, Sound is working great in games, listening to mp3's, even watching a vcd on xine. I put in an audio cd tried it with xmms, mplayer, gnome audio player and it plays with no sound. I've tried everything. And yes, the cable is connected from the cdrom to the soundcard
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CroMagnon · 11-17-2004, 10:18 PM

Did you check the mixer volume setting for the CD audio input?

postal26 · 11-17-2004, 10:31 PM

Yes the cd input is turned up all the way. I'm out of ideas

WilliamS · 11-17-2004, 10:47 PM

What I would do is run alsaconf as root, then alsamixer and correct the settings, then alsactl store.
Then adjust with kmixer or whatever it's called.

CroMagnon · 11-17-2004, 11:17 PM

The million dollar question - does it work normally under windows (assuming you have Windows around). This would (likely) help distinguish between a hardware and software issue.

postal26 · 11-18-2004, 01:50 PM

Yeah I could play audio cd's in Windows. I already ran alsaconf and alsamixer. Sound is working great withe everything. I can pop a vcd in the cd player and play the vcd with sound??? I can Play mp3's, but the stinkin audio cd's wont play. Strange!

eelriver · 11-18-2004, 02:06 PM

Make sure the location your trying to play from equals the actual location of the cd-drive. ie. /dev/hdc

postal26 · 11-23-2004, 12:06 PM

The path is correct, I'm thinking its some sort of permission somehwere thats not set correctly. I tried this in Windows and its definitely not a hardware issue.
I'm just really confused. With slackwareware 9.1 i never ran into this problem.
Thx

ringwraith · 11-23-2004, 12:14 PM

and xmms looks like it is playing but no sound?

do you get sound if running xmms as root?

have you messed with the inputs and outputs in xmms?

Keep in mind on the path if you have scsi emulation, you might have to set the device as /dev/scd0 or something similar.

rhb327 · 11-23-2004, 12:44 PM

I'm pretty new to Slack but I think if you add your user name to the audio group in /etc/group that would do the trick. When my audio wasn't working I couldn't even see the track time in KSCD for instance until I added my user to the group. I would expect if you logged into KDE or whatever as root (I know not recommended) just to test the audio cd it would work for root.

HTH

acidraven · 11-23-2004, 11:02 PM

First Connect Headphones to the front of your CD drive if you are getting sound out then there is a problem between the output of the cdrom drive and your sound card. Dubble check all the sliders for the mixer not just the CD there is the chance that somehow the input on the card is miss labled. also in Xmms you can change the cd player driver to digital audio extraction. and I have no idea what sound port that would play probly the main pcm.

Just some ideas