CD Player problem with SuSE 7.2

Clamor

I was wondering if anyone could help me out with the weird problem I'm having with a CD player running under SuSE 7.2. When I put in a normal CD into the drive and try to play it I dont get any sound. The player registers the tracks and begins playing showing the elapsed time per track and all that craic but no sound. I know the sound card is working cause it will play mp3 with out any problem. As I am new to linux and Unix in general, only installing the OS 3 days ago, I havn't been able to find any other source of information, either online or in the manual. Thanks in advance.

MiCr0

quick idea
make sure that cd sound is turned up

flamegrill

ill second that. thats all it is if the sound card is working properly. get our you sound mixer and whop the volume for cd play back up and you'll be grand.

Hecate

also make sure that your cdrom is connected to your soundcard correctly.

Clamor

They both check out. Cd is turned up and the soundcard is connected properly. The CD works fine when I boot into W2k.

Enygma

I've got the same problem, usually I just rip the CD anyways and listen to the MP3

Clamor

I could do the same but why waste diskspace when there's no need to as I have the original CD and it should play. I'm still at a loss to how the CD player can register all the tracks and their length and will play, but still give me no sound.

moist

It could be somthing to do with the "Output Device" a lot of gnome/ket/other X-apps seem
to use the "esound" or some such daemon.
Basically it connects to out audio devices and then other programs talk to it to get the audio.
The thing is, it usually locks your audio device (/dev/audio or similar) which means
other programmes can't talk to it directly.

Chect the settings in your mp3 player and see what its using at its output device.
Then see if you can set your cdplayer to use the same device in its properties.

Another option could be to get xmms which playes mp3's cd's and all sorts of things.
Assuming that can use the output device

hmm... actually you might try killing esound (or whatever daemon your mp3player is using)
(if its using one) and see if the cdplayer works then.

or indeed you could use fuser -v /dev/audio (or whatever device the cdplayer
is trying to open ) or lsof if its installed.
If the player doesn't say what device its using under propertiec you could use
strace /path/to/cdplayer in an xterm
to see what devices its trying to open.


erm... I think I'll stop now...




[This message has been edited by moist (edited 09-08-2001).]

Clamor

Thanks dude. I'll try those this evening and see how I get on.