Re: Playing CD's in Mandrake 9.1

[David Merriman]

Thanks Greg, that was the answer.  AlsaMixer had the CD level muted, and 
at volume 0.  As soon as I un-muted and upped the volume, voila !  I had 
sound.  What's annoying is that I'd tried upping the volume in AuMix, 
but there was no indication (that I could see) that the signal was 
actually muted, apart from the 'Mute All' menu item which I'd tried 
toggling - how are you supposed to tell ?  Dumb...

Thanks also to Nick and Chris for your suggestions.  I already knew it 
worked in XP, so I just needed to figure out Mandrake's version of 
'reality' :D

BTW Chris, I'd seen some posts by a 'Chris Wilkinson' in my digging 
through the CLUG archives, and I wondered if it was you.  Then I saw a 
reference to 'Povray' and I though 'ah HA', that's the Chris I know !  
You'll have to tell me what you're doing these days (off-forum if you 
wish); it's been a while.

Thanks again,
David
G. M. Bodnar wrote:

I'm not sure if drake uses alsa or not by default.  However, if alsa is
controlling your audio, the CD level may be muted.  Double check your
mixer (or have a quick test with alsamixer in a terminal.  If it is
muted, you'll see 'MM' at the top of the fader.)
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Good luck.

Greg
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