It's quite probably there's only one physical connection between your sb live sound card and the cdrom unit. This is a thin wire inside your computer. When you say you shouldn't have to switch to line out, though, that sounds strange. Essentially, the output should be the same, whether you're streaming over your net connection, playing a file on your hd, or playing audio from your cdr. Is your pcm setting up above 0? Cheryl Homiak writes: > > Hi all. > I am using alsa compiled into the 2.6.8.1 kernel; for the most part my > sound is fine. > > I have a cdrecorder and a plain cdrom. Both of these work using headphones > in the cdrom jack and using the cdrom's own built-in volume control wheel. > > However, through the speakers using alsamixer, i can get no sound at all > from the cdrecorder. from the plain cdrom I get sound just fine if I > switch my speaker plug to the line out jack but i shouldn't have to do > this. I do have cd unmuted and volume level all the way up. I have an > sblive card. > > any suggestions? > > Thanks. > -- Cheryl > > "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also." > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka, Chair Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) janina at freestandards.org Phone: +1 202.494.7040
