[NTLUG:Discuss] Sound Problems

[Chris Cox]

Rick Cook wrote:
> On Sunday 10 July 2005 20:49, Peter A. Koren wrote:
>>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.
> 
> Playing a wav file from a data CD is a "data access" where the bits are streamed
> over the ATAPI interface. You don't need a sound cable attached direcctly between
> the CD player and the sound card for that to work.

There was a time when KsCD didn't do digital direct access.. AND, I think
it may still be broken on certain versions of SUSE (the option to enable it).

On SUSE, I try to do everything with Kaffeine nowadays (video/mp3/CD/DVD/streaming)
just do I don't have to configure so many different clients.  If you are SUSE
user remember that packman is your friend.  http://packman.link2linux.org/
(Good source for all of the better versions of stuff for SUSE)