On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Gerry Doris wrote: >On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Gerry Doris wrote: > >> On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Jesse Keating wrote: >> >> > On Wednesday 29 January 2003 08:40, Gerry Doris wrote: >> > > I've tried using xmms, kscd, and of course the gnome default cd player. >> > > They all read the cd tracks and appear to be working...but no sound! >> > >> > Fire up your mixer, make sure the cd-audio volume (not the main volume) is >> > turned up. Also, working in windows isn't quite a good test, since lately >> > windows has figured out a way to get cd-audio through the IDE cable. Linux >> > still relies on the cd-audio cable being in place. Open up the box, double >> > check to make sure that the cd-audio cable is running from the cd-rom drive >> > to your soundcard, and in the proper place on your sound card. > >I got it working but I'm confused. > >I can get it to work by starting kmix and turning on the cd audio. It >then continues even if I end kmix. However, if I go to the menu and >select Volume Control under the Sound tab the gnome mixer starts and >immediately kills the audio??? The only way to get it back again is to >end this mixer and run kmix again turning on the cd audio. > There are two sound daemons: "esd" and "aRtsd". The former seems to be GNOME-related and the latter KDE-related. Perhaps kmix likes the artsd to be running and gnome-mixer likes esd to be running? Oisin Feeley -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list