Basically: why such troubles with KDE audio?

[Gary Kline]

On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 03:47:45PM +0000, RW wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 23:34:31 -0800
> Gary Kline <kline at tao.thought.org> wrote:
> 
> >
> > 	Thanks for your input, but it was ignorance that KsCD is not
> > for playback  of audio CD's on FBSD.  
> 
> I'm not sure what that means, since it's a CD player. Are you saying
> that some part of it is broken on FreeBSD?


	I don't know. It thinks it is playing, but I'm not hearing
	anything.  gnome-cd yeilds audio, KsCD doesnt.  Here is what mixer
	reports:


p1 13:58 <tao2> [480] mixer
Mixer vol      is currently set to  77:77
Mixer pcm      is currently set to  86:86
Mixer speaker  is currently set to  75:75
Mixer line     is currently set to  75:75
Mixer mic      is currently set to  50:50
Mixer cd       is currently set to  75:75
Mixer rec      is currently set to  50:50
Mixer igain    is currently set to  49:49
Mixer ogain    is currently set to  50:50
Mixer line1    is currently set to  75:75
Mixer phin     is currently set to  50:50
Mixer phout    is currently set to  50:50
Mixer video    is currently set to  75:75

> There are two ways of playing CDs. One way is that the app reads the
> tracks off the disk and treats them as data (I'm guessing it's
> this bit that doesn't work). The traditional way is that the CD player
> app controls the drive, but the sound goes directly from the drive to
> the sound-card (or motherboard) through a dedicated lead. 
> 
> If you fit that lead you should have sound from KsCD, or you may just
> need to turn-up the cd input in the mixer. That said I haven't bothered
> to do this for a long time since most mp3 apps will also play CD.
> 

	I used kmid to up the "igain":  no help.  I havve tried /dev/acd0
	and /dev/cdrom (they are links); no difference.  Maybe this one
	requires the SCSI work-aroumd.  Whatever I do in the configuration,
	lsof tells me that kscd is looking at the real /dev, /dev/acd0.

	One thing that may be a clue is that the "Select audio backend"
	string is greyed out.

	gary



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