No sound from audio cd's - Fixed

[Tim Wunder]

On 1/29/2003 1:39 PM, someone claiming to be Gerry Doris wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Tim Wunder wrote:
> 
> 
>>On 1/29/2003 12:16 PM, someone claiming to be Gerry Doris wrote:
>>
>>>On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Tom Wilson wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>Not trying to be facetious here but are you sure that there is a
>>>>audio cable running from you cd-rom to your sound card?  That would
>>>>be my first guess.
>>>>
>>>>--Tom Wilson
>>>
>>>
>>>Yes, there is an audio cable connected.  I even booted back to win98
>>>(it's been a while) and I can play the same cd's without problem.
>>>The hardware works!
>>>
>>
>>Well, assuming you've actually *looked* at the hardware and have seen
>>the cable and know it's connected and are not assuming that the cable is
>>connected because Windows plays the CD's, run a mixer, kmix for KDE,
>>and make sure the volume on the CD is not muted, and is turned up high 
>>enough.
>>
>>HTH,
>>Tim
> 
> 
> Hmmm, this is weird.  I now have it working.  
> 
> If I use kmix I can get it to work.  However, if I use the gnome mixer
> (the one on the sound menu called Volume Control) it kills the sound as
> soon as it opens.  There is no way to turn the sound on again except to
> start kmix and turn on the cd audio.
> 
> Thanks for pointing me to kmix!
> 

np

I'm guessing arts is getting in the way of the gnome mixer. Are you 
logged in under KDE or Gnome? FWIW, I've abandoned the BlueCurve desktop 
for straight KDE 3.1 because I got sick of trying to figure out what was 
and wasn't going to work right under RH's KDE.

I really don't think RH put much effort into getting KDE working right 
under BlueCurve. If you're gonna run one of the RH stock desktops, use 
Gnome. It just works better with RH 8. If you like to play, grab the KDE 
3.1 source and build it. I sure am glad I did.

Tim