Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
David Johanson wrote:
KsCD loads automatically and plays, even identifies the correct CD and track in the system tray, but gives no sound over the speakers or headphones.
Do you have an audio cable connected to your CD drive? Yes, audio cable is connected from two different players, one plextor CD and one Sony DVD. Both play under W2K just fine. So far for me, kscd in 9.3 is broken in regards to digital extraction. My troubleshooting has not found the problem, though I do not believe the problem is in kscd code, since the exact same code on my machine worked in 9.2. It must be something else I have not found interacting with either kscd or digital extraction. Kaffeine works OK though. Haven't tried Kaffeine yet.
Ctrl Cntr | Sounds & Multimedia | Sound System | has enable sound system checked and auto_suspend checked with a 5 second delay. Neither test sound nor test midi produces anything audible. | System Bell gives a tone set at 600Hz and 200 msec duration but I believe that is being output on the system speaker.
Have you tried to rebuild the arts package locally? That has worked for several. This would only be an option if other sound apps work, but not kde sounds. No, and I must admit I don't know how to do that.
Ctrl Cntr | YaST2 Modules | Hardware | Sound | shows two different sound cards as being configured:
[0] CM18738-6ch-MX as running (this should be the P4T533 onboard AC97 audio controller which is disabled in the system BIOS.
This card has the master vol set at 70 and the PCM volume at 48. Test of these settings gives no audible output. All the other settings are at 48. Since I have it theoretically disabled in the BIOS, this is what I would expect. But since it is theoretically disabled, I'm a bit confused as to why it is even showing in the list and showing as running.
[1] CT4760 SBLive! as running and the card I want to use.
This card has the master and PCM vols both set to 48; the other 24 options are all set at 50 or higher. I believe this would allow the sound to be heard if it was being output at all. As in card [0], test of these settings gives no audible output.
Perhaps they are conflicting. Try alsaconf and see what it does? Turned off the CMI card; no difference unfortunately. Ran alsaconf from root; it ran to completion ending with "Have a fun day." No change, still no sound.
Not sure at this point how to proceed. One thought was to delete the sound card [0] definition leaving only the current SBLive! option but I haven't tried that as yet as it seems like something disabled in the BIOS can't be running even if 9.3 says it is. Am I wrong in this assumption?
Since Linux can bypass the BIOS in some things, I suppose it could. Turns out there was a 3rd place I had to turn it off; did that also. No change.
For what it's worth, I can't get sound in my Mepis 3.3 distro either. All 3 distros reside on their own SCSI drives and do not talk with one another. Is this possibly a KDE related problem? Since one (Mepis) is ver 3.3 and the other (SuSE) 3.4, I was discounting this as a likely problem candidate.
I seriously doubt that as a problem.
At this point any suggestion greatly appreciated.
I would give alsaconf a try.
I did, as mentioned above; still no sound. ;-( Thanks for the suggestions. dave -- David C. Johanson Linux Counter # 116410 Powered by SuSE Linux 7.3 People who behold a phenomenon will often extend their thinking beyond it; people who merely hear about the phenomenon will not be moved to think at all. -- Goethe