On Friday 28 April 2006 09:14, Robin Laing wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Thursday 27 April 2006 18:45, Mark Haney wrote: >>>Gene Heskett wrote: >>>>Greetings; >>>> >>>>HP laptop, dv5320us, light scribe cd/dvd writer drive. FC5-i386 >>>>installed. >>>> >>>>When I insert an audio cd, it eventially asks me what I want to do >>>> I clicked on play. But that app, although it goes thru the >>>> motions (I think it was Kscd) is silent, and none of the input >>>> switches and buttons in kmix will do anything but bring up circuit >>>> noise, no audio seems to be making it from the cd reader to the >>>> rest of the system. >>>> >>>>When I looked in /media to see if hal or udev had created a device >>>>there, it had not done so. >>>> >>>>grip, noatun and a couple other apps are all similarly blessed with >>>>silence. >>>> >>>>Any good ideas as to what to check next? >>> >>>Just for fun, have you looked at alsamixer? I've found that to be >>> off in every laptop I've ever setup. >> >> Most of it was on, and now all of it is. >> Alsamixer reports it as an ATI IXP with a chip=conexant id 30 >> How do I change the 'view' to either capture or all? Ahh, got that, >> F5 and its all on & cranked. Nothing but circuit noises in the >> headphones & nothing in the speakers. All the kde noisemakers work >> just fine. >> >>>-- >>>Mark Haney >>>Sr. Systems Administrator >>>ERC Broadband > >I don't use kde but on any laptop that I have installed FC on, I had > to turn on the "External Amplifier" switch in Gnome Volume Control. > It took me a few days to find that one. Thats on too, Robin. audio cd's are still like silent movies only no piano. > >-- >Robin Laing -- Cheers, Gene People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should add the word 'online' between the 'verizon', and the dot which bypasses vz's stupid bounce rules. I do use spamassassin too. :-) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
