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[David Johanson <dcjohan@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

J. Scott Thayer, M.D. wrote:
> On Monday 30 May 2005 15:12, David Johanson wrote:
>
> > Like many on this list, I can't get sound properly configured with 9.3.
> > Searching google has not provided anything helpful.
> >
> > Hardware is as follows:
> > Asus P4T533 with onboard AC97 Audio Controller (disabled in the BIOS)
> > Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live Platinum
> > 512 MB RAM
> > SuSE 9.3 installed on IBM SCSI Drive
> > LOTS of other hardware I believe irrelevant.
> >
> > For the record, all this works as advertised under Win2K, so I'm
> > assuming, for now, no hardware problems.  It also worked on earlier
> > releases of the 9.x series.
> >
> > KsCD loads automatically and plays, even identifies the correct CD and
> > track in the system tray, but gives no sound over the speakers or
> > headphones.
> >
> > Ctrl Cntr | Sounds & Multimedia | Sound System | has enable sound system
> > checked and auto_suspend checked with a 5 second delay. Neither test
> > sound nor test midi produces anything audible.   | System Bell gives a
> > tone set at 600Hz and 200 msec duration but I believe that is being
> > output on the system speaker.
> >
> > Ctrl Cntr | YaST2 Modules | Hardware | Sound | shows two different sound
> > cards as being configured:
> >
> > [0] CM18738-6ch-MX as running (this should be the P4T533 onboard AC97
> > audio controller which is disabled in the system BIOS.
> >
> > This card has the master vol set at 70 and the PCM volume at 48. Test of
> > these settings gives no audible output. All the other settings are at
> > 48. Since I have it theoretically disabled in the BIOS, this is what I
> > would expect. But since it is theoretically disabled, I'm a bit confused
> > as to why it is even showing in the list and showing as running.
> >
> > [1] CT4760 SBLive! as running and the card I want to use.
> >
> > This card has the master and PCM vols both set to 48; the other 24
> > options are all set at 50 or higher. I believe this would allow the
> > sound to be heard if it was being output at all. As in card [0], test of
> > these settings gives no audible output.
> >
> > This holds true for both user and root which I believe is not what
> > others have reported.
> >
> > Not sure at this point how to proceed. One thought was to delete the
> > sound card [0] definition leaving only the current SBLive! option but I
> > haven't tried that as yet as it seems like something disabled in the
> > BIOS can't be running even if 9.3 says it is.  Am I wrong in this
> > assumption?
> >
> > For what it's worth, I can't get sound in my Mepis 3.3 distro either.
> > All 3 distros reside on their own SCSI drives and do not talk with one
> > another. Is this possibly a KDE related problem? Since one (Mepis) is
> > ver 3.3 and the other (SuSE) 3.4, I was discounting this as a likely
> > problem candidate.
> >
> > At this point any suggestion greatly appreciated.
> >
> > dave
> >
> > --
>
> Dave,
> 	This may be too simple minded but I had the same problem. In the Control 
> Center --> Sound & Multimedia --> Audio CDs the first entry is CD device. 
> Mine was defaulted to having the button selected for "determine device 
> automatically" I unchecked it so it said the device was /dev/cdrom. That 
> fixed to problem for me. YMMV.
>
> Scott



Thanks Scott -

	I've tried both options, determine automatically on and off. I've even 
switched between /dev/cdrom (my Plextor CD SCSI drive) and 
/dev/dvdrecorder (my EIDE Sony DVD drive) both of which are connected to 
the SBLive! card with both on/off options. Still no luck.  ;-(

dave



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