[ale] Linux/cd sound woes.

Dow_Hurst dhurst at mindspring.com
Mon Oct 2 21:54:01 EDT 2006


I'll second that about Suse 9.3 and kscd.  It tends to not work and also hang the drive.  The later version in KDE included in 10.1 fixed that problem.
Dow


-----Original Message-----
>From: James Taylor <James.Taylor at eastcobbgroup.com>
>Sent: Oct 2, 2006 9:34 PM
>To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
>Subject: Re: [ale] Linux/cd sound woes.
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>Try killing KsCD and open the CD with kaffeine.
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>It's been awhile since I've run 9.3, but it seems like KsCD never worked right for me.  I've pretty much stuck with kaffeine all my media, though sometimes I play with amarok for mp3's.
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>>>> On Mon, Oct 2, 2006 at  1:55 PM, in message
><452152A8.6060406 at fayettedigital.com>, Jim <ale_nospam at fayettedigital.com>
>wrote: 
>> I'm running Suse 9.3.  When I plug an audio cd into the machine, an 
>> instance of KsCD pops up and seems to indicate that it is playing the 
>> tunes, however I don't hear a thing.  KaMix shows the volume at 96% and 
>> I know generally audio is working 'cause I get the alert sounds when the 
>> system isn't happy, like taDa!  I can also cat .wav files to /dev/dsp. 
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>> Any suggestions as to how to troubleshoot this beast?  I'm running 
>> another system on Debian with the same symptoms except that catting .wav 
>> files to /dev/dsp generates the strangest modulated white noise I've 
>> ever heard!
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>> Thanks,
>> Jim.
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