On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 04:49:52PM +1100, Rob Weir wrote: > On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 01:33:51PM -0800, Andres Guedez wrote: > > Greetings, > > > > I've been having trouble getting sound to work in my > > Debian unstable setup. Environment sounds seem to work > > well in KDE (I get a sound when I open and close > > windows and that kind of stuff) and I was able to get > > sound when playing MP3s through XMMS. However, I > > cannot get any sound when playing CDs. > > Have you plugged your cd-rom drive into your sound card? Most CD > playing programs completely bypass your computer and just tell your > drive to blit bits down a digital interface onto your soundcard.
... if you're lucky enough to have a sound card with an S/PDIF connector for the CD-ROM (which the SB Live does) - 2-pin plug. Otherwise the CD-ROM does the D-to-A and passes analogue signals to the sound card - 3 or 4-pin plug. This may mean you have to set something in the mixer. What Linux calls it for your SB-Live I don't know. The Windoze drivers for my CMI8738 call it "Monitor S/PDIF IN (pass S/PDIF IN to analogue line out)". The Linux drivers for my card either don't use S/PDIF input at all or have this option switched on permanently, compiled in. So if you're really unlucky you may have to hack the kernel modules. And I think this means you may have to sign up as a Creative developer to get info on how to do it. I asked Creative a while back for a data sheet on the SB-Live and they said that due to "copyright issues" they couldn't send me one, which is one reason why I don't have a Soundblaster. If you don't mind the load you might try playing CDs "through the computer" with something like what I use (not very often, cos I usually play them through the hi-fi): cdda2wav -q -e -D/dev/cdrom -N -B 2>/dev/null & (that's for CD-ROM on ide-cd; if yours is ide-scsi use cdrecord -scanbus to get the n,n,n parameters for -D ) Pigeon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
