audio pain

[Ken Ambrose]

Your problem (and, frankly, the one regarding the user who couldn't get
CDs to play without skipping) have almost nothing to do, IIRC, with the
soundcard, per-se.  Unless I'm -VERY- mistaken, the soundcard does
*NOTHING* with the CD Audio except take the CD-ROM's line-out and point it
to a speaker.  It doesn't see bits, data, digital, nothing.  Just a
straight analog audio stream from the CD drive to the speaker.  (Which is
why I think that the Windows box is probably functioning okay-ish, and
that the user is mistaken in how stuff functions.  A busy system won't
impact an audio stream that it doesn't really even deal with.)  Bottom
line?  I think that there's probably a loose connection somewhere, OR you
may need to turn up the volume on your CD-ROM drive.  Have you ever played
CD-ROMs on this system from a different OS?

-Ken

P.S.  And "the man" is actually saying (from memory): "Hello, my name is
Linus Torvalds, and I prounounce 'Linux' as 'Linux'."

P.P.S.  You could also circumvent the entire issue by ripping the audio
files to MP3s, which will play fine.  And, IMHO, are _MUCH_ more
convenient on a notebook than a caseload of CDs.

On Wed, 14 Aug 2002, Matthew S. Sacks wrote:

>
> Greetings,
> Let me start my question over again.  I have switched to the gnome
> desktop.
> I am trying to play a CD with the gnome CD player, or with XMMS.
> I have a DELL Dimension 4400 which came with an Integrated ADI 1885
> chip.  The lspci command identifies the Multimedia audio controller as
> an Intel Corp. 82801BA/BAM AC'97 (rev 05)
> (This may make sense if ADI chip has been integrated onto a motherboard
> made by Intel....)
> I have a DVD player (/dev/cdrom) and a CD R/W (/dev/cdrom1).
>
> When I try to play audio with the gnome CD player, the player seems to
> think that it is playing - but I cannot hear anything.   Same thing
> happens with XMMS.  XMMS load files button does not see any files on the
> CD.
> If I put the CD in the DVD slot, XMMS load files button seems to see
> some audio files, but again when the XMMS seems to think it is playing
> the CD - there is no sound.
>
> The sndconfig utility identifies the audio card as the Intel 82801, and
> plays an audio clip of a man saying that he pronounces Unix as Linux.
> The quality of that sound clip is very poor, but it is coming out of the
> speakers.
>
> Has anybody resolved this kind of issue?
>
> Matthew Sacks
> 603.891.4194
> sacks at niobe.mv.com
>
>
> Patrick J. O'Rourke" wrote:
>
> > >
> > > Is anybody using kscd (KDE desktop), on a DELL Dimension?
> >
> > I have.  RH7.3.
> >
> > Pat
> >
> > --
> > Patrick O'Rourke
> > porourke at world.std.com
>
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