On Tuesday 09 Dec 2003 7:15 am, Carren Stuart wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi again, > > Thanks to everyone who replied to my last post re my modem. Your help > combined with that from elsewhere meant I now have a working modem and > can get online at last! :-) > > The other major problem I currently have is, no sound. I have no > system sounds at all, and cannot play music from an audio CD. I have > checked MCC and confirmed that sound is enabled. > > I have onboard sound which according to Windows is Advance AC'97 > audio. Mandrake sees it under hardware as ICH4 845G/FL Chipset AC '97 > audio controller, all of which means little to me. My CD-R/RW is a > Cyberdrive CW088D. Someone at a different forum suggested I make sure > the driver for the sound is an ALSA driver ... which it is (ends in > snd-) He also mentioned something about the CD writer needing SCSI > emulation ... I have no idea what that means! > > I would appreciate any advice or suggestions anyone might have to get > my sound working. TIA. > > - -- - > > Carren
The most common reason for having no sound is simply that the volume controls are muted. There several sound mixers provided. You will find them under KMenu>Multimedia>Sound Sometimes you have to adjust more than one mixer before you get sound. Adjust the aumix, kmix, and alsamixergui, and make sure the 'mute buttons' are not set. You can embed the kmix mixer in your KDE 'Quick start' bar for easy access. The mixer settings can be saved so they will not need to be adjusted again Test sound with mp3s as well as audio CDs. There can be other issues which stop you hearing an audio CD. HTH derek -- ---------------------------------- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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