[NTLUG:Discuss] Sound Problems

[Peter A. Koren]

On Sun, 2005-07-10 at 17:51 -0500, Stuart Johnston wrote:
> Peter A. Koren wrote:
> > I got my DVD/CD player/burner working for DVD's (video and sound), but
> > playing audio CD's produces no sound running KsCD. KsCD shows that the
> > Music is playing and even gets the correct information from servers on
> > the net to add to the cddb data base. Double clicking on a wav file on a
> > data CD works, but regular audio CDs do not work. I'm running a RHEL
> > (Fedora 3) derived distribution on an AMD 64 based system. Sound seems
> > to work for everything but normal CD playing.
> > 
> > Any hints?
> 
> Make sure that you have an audio cable connected from your cd drive to 
> your sound card (or motherboard).  Also go into your audio mixer and 
> check the volume of the CD audio inputs.

I assume that since I was able to play wave files from a data CD that my
cable is properly installed. Am I wrong? Is .wav data sent digitally As
a file over the EIDE ribbon cable or does the drive firmware decode it
and send it along over the analog 4-pin sound cable? I just do not know.
And since DVDs work (video and sound), I have to ask, "does analog sound
go over the analog cable or digitally over the EIDE cable?" If the
former, the cable must be OK.

Also, you mention the audio mixer. Kmix was set with zero volume, but
setting it for fairly high volume did nothing.

-- Pete