<quote who="David"> > On Tue, 28 Sep 2004, Jan Schmidt wrote: > > 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.
OK - you have the audio cable between your CD player and the sound card then :) > 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. That's a bit strange, I'm not sure what's going on there. > 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. Did you hit the space bar when 'mic' was selected to turn on the 'capture' flag? J. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pants Pants Pants Pants Pants Pants Pants Pants. Lovely Pants, wonderful Pa-ants. Lovely Pants, wonderful Pa-ants. (Shut up! Bloody Vikings.) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
