On Tue, 2004-11-02 at 12:05 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Greg Folkert wrote: > > On Tue, 2004-11-02 at 10:02 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > > >>Hi Debian! > >> > >>I spoke to soon, saying that the migration to alsa was a piece of cake. > >> > >>I have all sound, but no cd audio. I did have that with oss. > >> > >>The cd slider does not show up in aumix nor alsamixer. > >> > >>I googled for a clue. > >> > >>libcdaudio is installed of course. > >> > >>Anybody give me a hint? > >> > >>To install alsa: > >>1. I enabled alsa and the card in the kernel but without modules. > >>2. I installed alsa-base. > >> > >>That gave me sound. I forgot to test the cd, until today. > > > > > > 1. Do you have the Redbook Audio Cable installed from said CDROM device > > to said Sound card CD-IN input? > > 2. If not, did you remove it during the installation of alsa (wink > > wink... joking here, unless you did remove it) > > 3. Have you tried Digital Audio Extraction, this is what "ripping" a CD > > does. I know XMMS and Rhythmbox (only music stuff I use) does both. > > 4. Make sure you have "unmuted" the CD-Audio. > > The problem is the CD-Audio slider is not present, like I said in my > post. Not in alsamixer nor in aumix. In aumix it was present when I ran > OSS. So the cable, etc. is like it was with OSS a week ago. > > I found a post in Spanish: > http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&threadm=3d8798f4_3%40news.arrakis.es&rnum=18&prev=/groups%3Fas_q%3Dalsa%2520cdaudio%26safe%3Dimages%26as_scoring%3Dd%26lr%3D%26num%3D100%26hl%3Den > that describes it and the guy went back to OSS. I won't. The answer is > someplace. It isn't a bug because nobody talks about it. > > Somehow Alsa has decided there is no cdaudio to be had. > I see no kernel config parms pointing to it. > Don't tell me I have to find their mailing list to find out :-( Try to use the GNOME volume control: /usr/bin/gnome-volume-control See what is gives you. I used to use alsa-mixer but gave up when GNOME Vol control shaped up. Also, gnome-alsamixer seems to be nice too. Also you might get some more info by poking around in /proc/asound -- greg, greg@gregfolkert.net The technology that is Stronger, better, faster: Linux
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