Hi Robert, On Thursday 07 June 2001 06:08 am, Robert Mosher wrote: > I'm now able to play audio CDs and would like to say thanks to every who > gave advice. I ended up solving the problem by giving "others" permission > to read cdrom. Though I do realize this may not be the best solution. I > think I'll try playing around with groups like David suggested. Though I > didn't realize you could be in multiple groups. >
You can indeed :-) > Also a lot of you mentioned mixers. Right now I don't have any mixers > installed, and I'm not entirely sure if I have mixer support compiled > into the kernel (though if having /dev/mixer means I do, then I do). I > would assume that if I do have mixer support all that I have to do is > apt-get one. Anyone have some good suggestions for a mixer? I noticed > there was a lot of them listed. > It depends on which environment you're using. KDE: kmix Gnome: gmix Anything else: xmix I don't know of any console based ones, although I know they're out there. > And also will a mixer help my crappy sound? Right now everything is > pretty low quality compared to playing it in windoze. Though I'm sure I'll > figure most of this stuff out once I get back to my machine and have a > chance to play around with it. > Not sure about that, but if you play with the levels it may work. If I turn up my volume too high on the computer, my sound gets scratchy, so I have to compensate by turning up the speakers themselves. > Thanks, > Rob Mosher Good luck! - David Nusinow [EMAIL PROTECTED]