[Gllug] New user needs help

[Edward Tandi]

On Sun, 2003-01-19 at 10:39, will wrote:
> john cundy wrote:
> > The second problem is playing CD's. The sound appears to be configured 
> > correctly, the soundconfig check worked and I can get 'windows sounds'. 
> > When I put a CD in to any of the players it is read ok and I get track 
> > information, but when it plays there is no sound, despite the counter on 
> > the player confirming the track is playing. I have no idea what to do 
> > with this as the linux for dummies and linux-complete books don't seem 
> > to help.
> 
> The only times I have seen this happen are when there is no audio cable 
> connecting the soundcard to the CDRom drive.  Do you have one of these?  Did 
> CD's play OK in windows, if they did this might not be the problem.
> 
> Will.

Obvious question... have you tried opeining the sound mixer (gmix)? It
could be that the default mixer settings are bad. I'm not using Redhat,
but I find that I have to start gmix after boot to get any kind of sound
in Gnome.

Ed-T.


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