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PostPosted: Wed Aug 11, 2004 1:56 am    Post subject: I have digital sound, but no CD sound Reply with quote

Hi all. I have gentoo running on my Sony PCG-V505EC. Pretty much everything works great. My only problem is CD sound ... I have none.

What I mean is, if I play a CD "directly" using KSCD or xmms, there is no sound.

But if I play a CD "through" a digital interface, conversion to ogg for example and playing through kaboodle or xmms, the sound works fine. All digital sounds work fine (KDE sound effects, Gaim sound effects etc).

Any ideas?

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PostPosted: Wed Aug 11, 2004 2:32 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Have you tried aumix and un-muted the CD?
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 11, 2004 2:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

yea, been there. unmuted everything, turn all volumes up. Thing is, shouldn't the CD be playing direct to the speakers? In my desktop PC, the CD player is connected directly to the sound card so if I play a CD, it can be played "direct" to the sound card, with no OS intervention, or I can optionally play it through some digital channel, say conversion to ogg on the fly, which does involve OS intervention.
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 11, 2004 2:54 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

You could try the xmms plugin to read cd as data.

It is handy if there is no cable direct from the CD drive to the soundcard.

Code:
emerge xmms-cdread
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 11, 2004 3:05 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Curiously enough, I thought I would try playing an audio cd on my machine - it's not something I have done in quite a while, what with encoded music and internet radio....
Anyway, I am suffereing the same problem, I use Grip, it thinks it's playing the CD but I can't hear it.
If I wind up xmms, I can play digital sound...
Hmmm...
I will have to check if audio plays under windoze... just in case... It's been a while, the actual machine has changed a bit...
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 11, 2004 3:56 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

pixie wrote:
You could try the xmms plugin to read cd as data.

It is handy if there is no cable direct from the CD drive to the soundcard.

Code:
emerge xmms-cdread


All I get out of xmms-cdread is static.
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 11, 2004 3:57 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

lyallp wrote:
Curiously enough, I thought I would try playing an audio cd on my machine - it's not something I have done in quite a while, what with encoded music and internet radio....
Anyway, I am suffereing the same problem, I use Grip, it thinks it's playing the CD but I can't hear it.
If I wind up xmms, I can play digital sound...
Hmmm...
I will have to check if audio plays under windoze... just in case... It's been a while, the actual machine has changed a bit...


Yea. Who'd of thunk just playing a CD would be such a pain. I mean, I can play the CD through a digital channel, but I'd rather play it direct.
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 14, 2004 10:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

So to top it all off, analog play works just fine from within Windows. WMP allows you to switch between analog and digital play, and both work. But analog play does not work in Linux.

Xmms works the same ... the CD plugin allows you to switch from analog to digital audio. But in this case, digital works, while analog does not.

Maybe I am missing something in my kernel? Something under /dev? Maybe device perms?

Code:

yen mark ~ $ ls -l /dev/sound
total 0
crw-------  1 mark audio 14, 12 Dec 31  1969 adsp
crw-------  1 mark audio 14,  4 Dec 31  1969 audio
crw-------  1 mark audio 14,  3 Dec 31  1969 dsp
crw-------  1 mark audio 14,  0 Dec 31  1969 mixer
crw-------  1 mark audio 14,  1 Dec 31  1969 sequencer
crw-------  1 mark audio 14,  8 Dec 31  1969 sequencer2
yen mark ~ $
yen mark ~ $
yen mark ~ $
yen mark ~ $ ls -l /dev/snd
total 0
crw-------  1 mark audio 116,  0 Dec 31  1969 controlC0
crw-------  1 mark audio 116, 24 Dec 31  1969 pcmC0D0c
crw-------  1 mark audio 116, 16 Dec 31  1969 pcmC0D0p
crw-------  1 mark audio 116, 25 Dec 31  1969 pcmC0D1c
crw-------  1 mark audio 116, 26 Dec 31  1969 pcmC0D2c
crw-------  1 mark audio 116, 27 Dec 31  1969 pcmC0D3c
crw-------  1 mark audio 116, 20 Dec 31  1969 pcmC0D4p
crw-------  1 mark audio 116,  1 Dec 31  1969 seq
crw-------  1 mark audio 116, 33 Dec 31  1969 timer
yen mark ~ $


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