Hello: I too am unable to get sound from my CD drive using the Kscd player. The display on the player, and LED on the CD drive, indicate that everything is functioning OK, but there's no sound. My sound card is an SB-Live with support compiled into the kernel. I've checked the mixer settings, nothing's muted and the volumes are set up I can hear the the system bell, play MP3s with Noatun, and even get music from the CD when I use XMMS to play /dev/cdrom instead of Kscd. Does somebody out there have another suggestion for me to try to get Kscd working. (I find it more convenient than XMMS.) Thanks in advance, George -- George H. Griffin Powered by SuSE Linux 7.1, kernel 2.4.2 "Always believe your observations, not your theories (no matter how near they may be to your heart) if the two are in conflict!" John Gribbin
On Wednesday 04 April 2001 10:26 pm, you wrote: I too am unable to get sound from my CD drive using the Kscd player.
The display on the player, and LED on the CD drive, indicate that everything is functioning OK, but there's no sound. My sound card is an SB-Live with support compiled into the kernel. I've checked the mixer settings, nothing's muted and the volumes are set up Open kmix and check to see if your CD sound is up. Luck Kevin Breit
GHG> I too am unable to get sound from my CD drive using the Kscd player. GHG> The display on the player, and LED on the CD drive, indicate that GHG> everything is functioning OK, but there's no sound. My sound card is an GHG> SB-Live with support compiled into the kernel. I've checked the mixer GHG> settings, nothing's muted and the volumes are set up GHG> I can hear the the system bell, play MP3s with Noatun, and even get GHG> music from the CD when I use XMMS to play /dev/cdrom instead of Kscd. GHG> Does somebody out there have another suggestion for me to try to get GHG> Kscd working. (I find it more convenient than XMMS.) Does the player show the number of tracks on the CD. If not, try it as root. If it works for root and not for an ordinary user, you need to give your user permission. Info on how to do this is built into the player. Click around to find it. This was the problem for me the first time I installed 7.1. When I repartioned and reinstalled a couple of weeks later after a motherboard went south, the player worked "right out of the box." The difference apparently was the install. The first one was cranky due to the motherboard starting to go, which required some manual tweaking. The second was flawless. -- Best regards, Rudder mailto:rudder@olsusa.com
Rudder wrote: snip my original inquiry
Does the player show the number of tracks on the CD. If not, try it as root. If it works for root and not for an ordinary user, you need to give your user permission. Info on how to do this is built into the player. Click around to find it.
This was the problem for me the first time I installed 7.1. When I repartioned and reinstalled a couple of weeks later after a motherboard went south, the player worked "right out of the box."
The difference apparently was the install. The first one was cranky due to the motherboard starting to go, which required some manual tweaking. The second was flawless.
Yes, the player display shows the number of tracks on the disk, and I can skip form track to track. It also ticks off the elapsed time the track has been "playing." I've also tried to play CDs as root with the same result. I did have to change permissions on /dev/cdrom to get the player to see the disk. George -- George H. Griffin Powered by SuSE Linux 7.1, kernel 2.4.2 "Always believe your observations, not your theories (no matter how near they may be to your heart) if the two are in conflict!" John Gribbin
GHG> Yes, the player display shows the number of tracks on the disk, and I GHG> can skip form track to track. It also ticks off the elapsed time the GHG> track has been "playing." I've also tried to play CDs as root with the GHG> same result. GHG> I did have to change permissions on /dev/cdrom to get the player to see GHG> the disk. Well, I'm at a loss. You didn't mention the volume slider on the player itself, but I'm sure you've tried that too. I'm afraid I'm too new to Suse to offer much more in the way of suggestions. Could the problem be in KDE itself? -- Best regards, Rudder mailto:rudder@olsusa.com
Hi: Kmix is turned off. On Thursday 05 April 2001 13:13, you wrote:
Well, I'm at a loss. You didn't mention the volume slider on the player itself, but I'm sure you've tried that too. I
The CD volume is off in Kmix. It installs that way by default. Go to KDE -> Multimedia -> Sound Mixer (Kmix) in your menu. Underneath the copper colored disc move the slider bar up from the bottom. -- Cheers, Jonathan
Jonathan Drews wrote:
Hi:
Kmix is turned off.
On Thursday 05 April 2001 13:13, you wrote:
Well, I'm at a loss. You didn't mention the volume slider on the player itself, but I'm sure you've tried that too. I
The CD volume is off in Kmix. It installs that way by default. Go to KDE -> Multimedia -> Sound Mixer (Kmix) in your menu. Underneath the copper colored disc move the slider bar up from the bottom.
I have all of the volumes in Kmix, except "Microphone" turned up high. Only the microphone is muted. The volume in Kscd is also turned up to 100%. I don't know what else to try at this point. George -- George H. Griffin Powered by SuSE Linux 7.1, kernel 2.4.2 "Always believe your observations, not your theories (no matter how near they may be to your heart) if the two are in conflict!" John Gribbin
What is listed in the "Character Devices" section when you do a "cat proc/devices" command? JLK On Friday 06 April 2001 13:13, George H. Griffin wrote:
Jonathan Drews wrote:
Hi:
Kmix is turned off.
On Thursday 05 April 2001 13:13, you wrote:
Well, I'm at a loss. You didn't mention the volume slider on the player itself, but I'm sure you've tried that too. I
The CD volume is off in Kmix. It installs that way by default. Go to KDE -> Multimedia -> Sound Mixer (Kmix) in your menu. Underneath the copper colored disc move the slider bar up from the bottom.
I have all of the volumes in Kmix, except "Microphone" turned up high. Only the microphone is muted. The volume in Kscd is also turned up to 100%. I don't know what else to try at this point.
George
I have all of the volumes in Kmix, except "Microphone" turned up high. Only the microphone is muted. The volume in Kscd is also turned up to 100%. I don't know what else to try at this point.
George This is off the wall, but I discovered that in some of the mixer apps,
On Friday 06 April 2001 13:13, George H. Griffin wrote: there are more sliders 'hidden' off to the right. You have to scroll over to find them. That, coupled with the fact that my laptop has the CD audio wired to the 'Aux Line 2' input, gave me fits for several days.
-- Rick Green "I have the heart of a little child, and the brain of a genius. ... and I keep them in a jar under my bed"
Hi, Can you hear the sound using the headphones plugged directly into the drive? If yes, then make sure the audio cable is connected between CD drive and sound card. I missed the earlier part of this thread, so pardon me if this has already been covered or not relevent. -- Nadeem Hasan nhasan@nadmm.com http://www.nadmm.com/ "George H. Griffin" wrote:
Jonathan Drews wrote:
Hi:
Kmix is turned off.
On Thursday 05 April 2001 13:13, you wrote:
Well, I'm at a loss. You didn't mention the volume slider on the player itself, but I'm sure you've tried that too. I
The CD volume is off in Kmix. It installs that way by default. Go to KDE -> Multimedia -> Sound Mixer (Kmix) in your menu. Underneath the copper colored disc move the slider bar up from the bottom.
I have all of the volumes in Kmix, except "Microphone" turned up high. Only the microphone is muted. The volume in Kscd is also turned up to 100%. I don't know what else to try at this point.
George
Nadeem Hasan wrote:
Hi,
Can you hear the sound using the headphones plugged directly into the drive? If yes, then make sure the audio cable is connected between CD drive and sound card.
I missed the earlier part of this thread, so pardon me if this has already been covered or not relevent.
-- Nadeem Hasan nhasan@nadmm.com http://www.nadmm.com/
"George H. Griffin" wrote:
Jonathan Drews wrote:
Hi:
Kmix is turned off.
On Thursday 05 April 2001 13:13, you wrote:
Well, I'm at a loss. You didn't mention the volume slider on the player itself, but I'm sure you've tried that too. I
The CD volume is off in Kmix. It installs that way by default. Go to KDE -> Multimedia -> Sound Mixer (Kmix) in your menu. Underneath the copper colored disc move the slider bar up from the bottom.
I have all of the volumes in Kmix, except "Microphone" turned up high. Only the microphone is muted. The volume in Kscd is also turned up to 100%. I don't know what else to try at this point.
George
Hello All: This fixed it. The cable from the sound card went to the DVD drive (/dev/hdd)instead of the CD-RW drive (/dev/hdc). I was thrown off because both drives played music in Win2K, and the CD-RW played music through XMMS. Different data/signal paths I guess. And when I installed SuSE it automatically set up Kscd to go through the CD-RW drive instead of the DVD drive. I actually found this solution a couple of days ago in the SuSE support database, but since both drives play music OK in Win2K I discounted it. You learn something new every day. Thanks to all for their suggestions. George -- George H. Griffin Powered by SuSE Linux 7.1, kernel 2.4.2 "Always believe your observations, not your theories (no matter how near they may be to your heart) if the two are in conflict!" John Gribbin
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