[lug] RH 7.2 Sound problem

[Jeffery D. Collins]

Your message prompted a call to tech support and I finally have a better
understanding of
the situation.  They didn't install an analog cable from
the CDROM to the sound card, so sound in Linux won't work.  As you mentioned
below,
digital sound is enabled in W2K.  Apparently, by going into the control
panel for the CDROM
and disabling digital sound, the front jack will start working again for all
OSs.  If I also install
an analog cable from the CDROM to the sound card, sound should start working
under
linux.

Does anyone know if Linux will support CDs digitally as W2K does?

--
Jeffery Collins (http://www.boulder.net/~jcollins)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Hugh Brown" <hugh at vecna.com>
To: <lug at lug.boulder.co.us>
Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 8:19 AM
Subject: Re: [lug] RH 7.2 Sound problem


> Windows2K will play cd's digitally (i.e. the cable from the cd drive to
> the sound card doesn't have to be there).


>
> So, make sure the cable is connected.  Can you plug a pair of headphones
> into the cdrom and hit the play button on the drive?


>
> other cd players you could try are kscd (kde's player) and cdp (a
> terminal based player)
>
> Hugh
>
> On Fri, 2002-02-22 at 18:39, Jeffery D. Collins wrote:
> > I've search the google archives for an answer to this one, but can't
> > find one.  My Soundblaster Live! card works fine for playing audio files
> > (eg, play <audiofile.au>), but won't work with CDs.  I've been using
> > gtcd to play them and gmix to adjust the mixer, but haven't found the
> > right combination.  I've read suggestions regarding the use of xmixer
> > over gmix, but under RH7.2 they are all (including aumix) now
syncronized.
> >
> > What else can I try?  Are there any sound diagnostic tools?
> >
> > BTW, the CD player works fine on W2K, so that should eliminate some
> > basic hardware concerns.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Jeffery Collins (http://www.boulder.net/~jcollins)
>
>
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