On Sun, 27 Aug 2000, Daniel E. Baumann wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Aug 2000, Vik wrote:
> > I can't play audio cd's in potato - audio or cd progs complain that saying
> > they cannot access the cdrom device, and if I just hit the 'play' button
> > on the cd-drive itself, the output doesn't go thru the soundcard - The
> > only way I can listen is to get the audio cable and put in the the jack on
> > the front of the cd player.
> >
> > I am using the ALSA drivers that came with potato. Could it be a problem
> > with this? Or maybe cdrom automounting? Everything worked OK under
> > Redhat6.1
> >
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> You probably have all the channels muted. When you first install ALSA the
> channels are muted by default and you have to turn the sound up using a mixer
> program. If you are running KDE you can use kmix, if GNOME use gmix, if
> nothing cool then use alsamixer (console based).
>
> Also after you unmute and turn up the sound you shoud do (as root) 'alsactl
> store' which will write the settings to /etc/alsa.conf.
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> I am using ALSA on my laptop, but I did not use the debs I compiled the
> latest version myself.
>
> Dan
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Oh yeah. You should also check the premissions on /dev/cdrom (which usually
points to the real device).
Dan
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