[NTLUG:Discuss] Sound Problems

[Rick Cook]

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.

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