On Tuesday 21 August 2001 23:34, you wrote: > On Tuesday 21 August 2001 08:21 pm, Dennis Myers escribió: > > > Thanks Dennis, helpful. Getting loud sounds from Midi, system > > > sounds (e.g. "ahem" sound). But cdplayer and grip wierdly don't > > > play through my sound card at all. I have to plug headphones into > > > CD device. Still trying to figure that out. > > > > > > Kirby > > > > That sounds (no pun intended) like the audio cable from the CDROM to > > the sound card is not plugged in. If you have a CDROM and a CDRW > > only one needs to be plugged in and both should work, I believe > > whichever is master should be connected. Make sure that the > > connection is made with the red wire on the + terminal of the sound > > card. Someone help me out here. > > Polarity will only affect left-right (or vice-versa) speaker output. > OTOH, with some of the newer win-hardware junk, there is no header to > plug the CDrom-sound cable into, either on win-motherboards with > integrated sound and/or some win-only sound cards. If this is the case > the 'volume very faint' situation is just bleed thru. Only viable fix > is to replace with hardware that is designed to work without Uncle > Billy's Windoze. > > Not sure about your "only one needs to be plugged in and both > should work" comment, but I don't think so. AFAIK, only the connected > CD drive would be able to play sounds. That's the situation here, my > CDrom is connected, my CD-RW isn't. I'll be real surprised if this > isn't the case. 'Course, wouldn't be the first time I've been surprised > either ;> ---------------------------------------- Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; name="message.footer" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: ---------------------------------------- My memory isn't what it used to be, but it seems that back before I blew out the 42x CDROM it would play cd's while I wrote a disk and yet I could also put the music cd into the writer and listen from it. Like I say the memory is not good for somethings that were over a year ago. ;-) -- Dennis M. registered linux user # 180842
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