On Sun, 7 Sep 2003, Chris I wrote: > On 2003.09.07 11:17, Jorge Almeida wrote: > > On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, Adam Dunstan wrote: > > > > > maybe its a dumb question, but did you plug in your cd audio cable? > > It's not a dumb question, but I did (I suppose you mean the analog > > cable, I don't have a digital one, although both the driver and the > > card have the corresponding connectors). Anyway, the thing works in > > another OS that shall remain unnamed... > > Maybe alsa has let its mark on the system? I recompiled KDE with > > USE="-alsa" and rc-update'd alsasound off the boot runlevel. > > Are you sure this other operating system is playing through the audio > cable at all? No, I understand nothing about the workings of that O$. > emerge xmms and try to play the cd through that. If thats > a no-go, try the xmms-cdread plugin (switch via prefrences) and see if > that works. It doesn't work with xmms. I had the plugin emerged and enabled. The input plugin "Audio CD Reader" (I suppose this is the one) is configured to "Read Digital CD Audio" (as opposed to "Play Audio CD Directly") in the "Output" tab of "CD Reader Configuration". What I don't understand is how one should select the plugin to be used, since there are others enabled; anyway, I opened xmms's Preferences -> Audio I/O plugins, selected "Audio CD Reader 0.14a" and "Apply"'ed, and let the window open while trying to play... I would guess this is a driver problem, related to the remains of alsa. I can't clean alsa off the system, short of re-installing gentoo, which is not really an option. Did I mention that I'm starting to hate alsa?
(BTW: when playing data read from the CD, how do data go from the CD? Through the 80-pins cable? I don't have a two-pins digital cable from the CD drive to the sound card...) Thanks for your input. -- Jorge Almeida -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
