On Thu, 2006-04-27 at 19:17 -0400, 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. But at the base of each channel is there a 00 or a MM. If the latter the channel is muted. Hit a the m key and make then all go from MM to 00. -- Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
