Re: no sound from music CD with XMMS

From: T.A. (thad_at_bookworm.localdomain)
Date: 01/08/05 

Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2005 07:59:24 -0600

On 2005-01-08, Frank Carter <spam@deliciousspam.net> wrote:
> XMMS displays the 17 cuts on the album with their play time, and when I tell
> it to play, it displays a graph of audio levels, but nothing comes out the
> speakers.
>
> It's XMMS 1.2.10, I have input set to CD Audio Player with Digital audio
> extraction, using the Alsa output plugin, default audio device, mixer device
> Master. Kernel is 2.6.8.1 with all the Alsa stuff and the Intel i8x0 sound
> driver linked in. I ran dmesg and it shows Alsa initializing normally. I
> ran alsamixer and set the level for Master at 72%, and ran the volume slider
> all the way up on XMMS.
>
> I know my sound chipset and speakers work because I have a dual-boot system,
> and have tested it all with OOPS (Other OPerating System).
>
> (I'm also puzzled that XMMS says it mounts /dev/cdrom on /mnt/cdrom,
> although if I display /proc/mounts, the cdrom isn't listed as mounted. What
> filesystem type do you use to mount an audio CD?)
>
> Anyway, I hope someone out there has an idea why no sound is getting to my
> speakers.
>
> Thanks,
> Frank
>
>
if you go into Volume Control (assuming KDE or Gnome) and adjust the
sliders for Master, PCM, and CD, does that help?

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