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Re: no cd-sound but es1370 works



This one time, at band camp, Elimar Riesebieter said:
> On Sun, 27 Oct 2002 the mental interface of 
> Christian Mascher told:
> 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I'm Debian Newbie (two weeks). This is my first message posted with
> > mutt, hoping I got exim and fetchmail etc. working yesterday (with
> > smarthost ISP). 
> > 
> > As to the subject question: module es1370 is started at bootup and finds
> > the sound card (actually creative sound-blaster audiopci 64v). I can hear
> > some sounds in kde or gnome or even some weird noise ;-) when doing 
> > # cat /bin/ls > /dev/dsp
> > as someone suggested shortly, although the sound is always in a very low
> > volume. esd is running. 
> > 
> > But I want to play an audio cd. Tried this first with gnome
> > cd-applet, but it doesn't do anything, not even eject etc. Never found a
> > KDE-CD-player (wasn't there one supplied a few years ago?). Then I
> > installed cdcd and started it with
> > # cdcd -d /dev/hdd (which is my CD-ROM-drive)
> > It does everything expected, ejects, shows me the tracks, even
> > starts playing (according to led) -- but I can't hear anything. 
> 
> Make sure you're member of groups audio and cdrom.

I believe he is, as he can hear some sounds, and can cat to /dev/dsp.
It sounds like your mixer settings are too low, if everything is really
quiet.  Try `apt-cache search mixer` to see a list of available mixers,
so you can raise and lower volume settings.  I use aumixer, but YMMV.

HTH,
Steve
-- 
She ran the gamut of emotions from 'A' to 'B'.
		-- Dorothy Parker, on a Kate Hepburn performance

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