RE: playing audio CDs on FC4

[Craig Preston]

Have you plugged the cd drive into the input on the sound card. Windows
can play music without this cable, but I'm not sure if Linux can.

Craig

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Subject: playing audio CDs on FC4

Hello All,

I'm running FC4 with a KDE desktop on a new Pentium 4 dual
booting with Windows XP.  Under Windows I can play and rip CDs on the
DVD drive using Windows Media Player without anything unusual happening.
(I mention this only to eliminate the obvious hardware issues.)
    With FC4 the system recognizes my soundcard:
    Vendor: Intel
    Model: Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/RW/FRW (ICH6 Family) High
Definition Audio Controller
    Module: snd-hda-intel
and plays the usual test tune.
    The mixer KMix shows all the outputs turned on with 75% volume
(except for PCM which doesn't seem to have a mute function.)
    The CD players xmms and KsCD both appear to be playing from the
drive but I can't get any sound.

Thanks for the help,
Jerry

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playing audio CDs on FC4

[Gerhard Magnus]

> I'm running FC4 with a KDE desktop on a new Pentium 4 dual
> booting with Windows XP.  Under Windows I can play and rip CDs on the
> DVD drive using Windows Media Player without anything unusual happening.
> (I mention this only to eliminate the obvious hardware issues.)
>    With FC4 the system recognizes my soundcard:
>    Vendor: Intel
>    Model: Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/RW/FRW (ICH6 Family) High
> Definition Audio Controller
>    Module: snd-hda-intel
> and plays the usual test tune.
>    The mixer KMix shows all the outputs turned on with 75% volume
> (except for PCM which doesn't seem to have a mute function.)
>    The CD players xmms and KsCD both appear to be playing from the
> drive but I can't get any sound.

On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 08:55 +1000, Craig Preston wrote:
> Have you plugged the cd drive into the input on the sound card. Windows
> can play music without this cable, but I'm not sure if Linux can.

OK, I popped the case.  There's no soundcard in the PCA slots so it must
be on the motherboard somewhere....  I don't have a clue where to
connect that CD cable.  My dealer said this machine used a newer
architecture but it can't be that new!  Are there any linux settings or
linux cd-playing software that get around this problem?

playing audio CDs on FC4

[John Wendel]

Gerhard Magnus wrote:
> > I'm running FC4 with a KDE desktop on a new Pentium 4 dual
> > booting with Windows XP.  Under Windows I can play and rip CDs on the
> > DVD drive using Windows Media Player without anything unusual happening.
> > (I mention this only to eliminate the obvious hardware issues.)
> >    With FC4 the system recognizes my soundcard:
> >    Vendor: Intel
> >    Model: Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/RW/FRW (ICH6 Family) High
> > Definition Audio Controller
> >    Module: snd-hda-intel
> > and plays the usual test tune.
> >    The mixer KMix shows all the outputs turned on with 75% volume
> > (except for PCM which doesn't seem to have a mute function.)
> >    The CD players xmms and KsCD both appear to be playing from the
> > drive but I can't get any sound.
>
> On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 08:55 +1000, Craig Preston wrote:
> > Have you plugged the cd drive into the input on the sound card. Windows
> > can play music without this cable, but I'm not sure if Linux can.
>
> OK, I popped the case.  There's no soundcard in the PCA slots so it must
> be on the motherboard somewhere....  I don't have a clue where to
> connect that CD cable.  My dealer said this machine used a newer
> architecture but it can't be that new!  Are there any linux settings or
> linux cd-playing software that get around this problem?

XMMS can play a CD using the digital interface.

The menu selection is well hidden.

XMMS -> options -> preferences -> input plugins -> cd audio player -> 
configure -> digital audio extraction.

KSCD also has a digital option, but it doesn't work for me.

Regards,

John

playing audio CDs on FC4

[Gerhard Magnus]

On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 19:14 -0800, John Wendel wrote:
> Gerhard Magnus wrote:
> > > I'm running FC4 with a KDE desktop on a new Pentium 4 dual
> > > booting with Windows XP.  Under Windows I can play and rip CDs on the
> > > DVD drive using Windows Media Player without anything unusual happening.
> > > (I mention this only to eliminate the obvious hardware issues.)
> > >    With FC4 the system recognizes my soundcard:
> > >    Vendor: Intel
> > >    Model: Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/RW/FRW (ICH6 Family) High
> > > Definition Audio Controller
> > >    Module: snd-hda-intel
> > > and plays the usual test tune.
> > >    The mixer KMix shows all the outputs turned on with 75% volume
> > > (except for PCM which doesn't seem to have a mute function.)
> > >    The CD players xmms and KsCD both appear to be playing from the
> > > drive but I can't get any sound.
> > > Have you plugged the cd drive into the input on the sound card. Windows
> > > can play music without this cable, but I'm not sure if Linux can.
> >
> > OK, I popped the case.  There's no soundcard in the PCA slots so it must
> > be on the motherboard somewhere....  I don't have a clue where to
> > connect that CD cable.  My dealer said this machine used a newer
> > architecture but it can't be that new!  Are there any linux settings or
> > linux cd-playing software that get around this problem?
>
> XMMS can play a CD using the digital interface.
>
> The menu selection is well hidden.
>
> XMMS -> options -> preferences -> input plugins -> cd audio player -> 
> configure -> digital audio extraction.
>
> KSCD also has a digital option, but it doesn't work for me.

This works!  Thanks!

more problems playing audio CDs on FC4

[Gerhard Magnus]

On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 19:14 -0800, John Wendel wrote:
Hello All,

I'm still having problems playing audio CDs with a KDE desktop running
on a Pentium 4.  The system recognizes my "soundcard" which is on the
motherboard rather than in a slot.  There's no cable connecting the CD
player to the soundcard and the machine did not come with documentation
as to how -- or where -- to install one.  With help from this list I've
been able to play CDs using the DVD player's digital interface by
setting this parameter in xmms:
    XMMS -> options -> preferences -> input plugins -> cd audio player ->
configure -> digital audio extraction
    Two new problems have emerged:
    (1) How can I make xmms my default player and stop KsCd from popping up
every 5 seconds?  (Actually, the ideal for me would be to have nothing
start automatically when I put in a CD.  It seems this should be simple
but I can't find the menu selection anywhere!)
    (2) I'm getting noise that sounds like static when I play a CD.  The
problem is not the speakers since I get the same interference when I
plug in headphones instead.  Also, this problem does not occur when I
boot Windows XP on the same machine and play the same CD using Windows
Media Player or iTunes.  The static (which sounds like something on a
cheap radio) stops during gaps between songs so I've assumed it has
something to do with the volume settings.  I've fiddled with the mixer
settings using alsamixer and KMix (are these controlling the same
thing?) but haven't been able to get rid of the noise.
    If this some sort of hardware issue I need to narrow it down before I
dare taking the machine back to the shop.  Unless I can find the right
tech in the back room I know they'll just tell me to use Windows!

Thanks for the help! 
Jerry

more problems playing audio CDs on FC4

[Tim]

On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 08:05 -0800, Gerhard Magnus wrote:
> I'm still having problems playing audio CDs with a KDE desktop running
> on a Pentium 4.  The system recognizes my "soundcard" which is on the
> motherboard rather than in a slot.

What type of card.  Some aren't compatible.  ISA cards aren't always too
brilliant.
> (2) I'm getting noise that sounds like static when I play a CD.  The
> problem is not the speakers since I get the same interference when I
> plug in headphones instead.  Also, this problem does not occur when I
> boot Windows XP on the same machine and play the same CD using Windows
> Media Player or iTunes.  The static (which sounds like something on a
> cheap radio) stops during gaps between songs so I've assumed it has
> something to do with the volume settings.

If it didn't work on either, I'd have said a bad sound card.  But
perhaps it's drivers that aren't very good.  There's also a chance that
your CD-ROM and it aren't that compatible, if other things play sound
fine.