On Tue, 28 Sep 2004, Jan Schmidt wrote:
> <quote who="Peter Chubb"> > > I suggest you get Bach to work ... fire up a mixer and make sure that > > output is enabled from the CD and the volume control isn't on zero. > > Then you can Lizten to your heart's content. > > > > That may not be sufficient. On a lot of recent machines, the audio cable > from the CD-ROM drive to the sound card is not installed. Windows Media > Player uses CDDA digital extraction and then plays the music as if it were > a wav file. This won't use the analog cable, and allows the visualisation > effects they play (otherwise they'd have to capture the audio from the sound > card). > > Which means that you need a CDDA based CD player to play them... which Gnome > 2.8's CD player isn't, but 2.8.1's should be... the patch just missed the > freeze date. > > Of course, this is not to say that your problem isn't just that the CD > channel is turned down in your mixer :) Thanks, Jan.. I now have both Mahler and Zeppelin. I fired up alsamixer and fiddled with levels and toggles till sound came out. Now the cute little speaker icon on the desktop shows zero and is non-functional. I don't care about that too much, but it certainly fails the "Just Works" test espoused by Ubuntu. A non-technical person would have no hope. I'm also trying to set up GnomeMeeting, but even though I can induce feedback using alsamixer (implying that both speakers and mike are working), GnomeMeeting's test is implacably silent :( Ditto for GnomeMeeting's video. David. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
