[plug] Mandrake LE2005

[Craig Ringer]

On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 11:29 +0800, David Dartnall wrote:

> When a music disk is put into my cdrom drive, the kscd window appears 
> and the disk is played.
> In kmix the only volume control slider on the output tab which has any 
> effect is the Headphone (and they work, with the mike producing sound in 
> the earphones when tapped).
> The volume control on the panel has no effect.

If it's playing through the analogue CD input, and the panel volume
control is manipulating the PCM volume rather than the master volume,
that's to be expected.

Most cards let you control the CD input volume separately. Some players,
though, "rip" the CD over ATA then play it through the PCM device. If
yours was one of those, though, the panel volume should affect it.

You should be able to adjust the CD volume separately on the mixer. See
if there are any hidden panels, or try using "alsamixer" from the
command line.

> The text-to-speech programme kmouth produces no sound and I'm unable to 
> get any sound when running skype.

Check that the line in and mike in are not muted in a mixer.

> In addition, our granddaughter is learning the piano, and I've been 
> trying to configure Rosegarden for her. No sound. I'm aware that this is 
> going to be more difficult - qsynth and jack are installed etc.. but if 
> the problem of sound in the simpler processes can be solved maybe I can 
> work thro' the process of configuring Rosegarden from there. (I've 
> ordered a book on Rosegarden). Question: My sound is on the motherboard 
> - no sound card - is it necessary to have a sound card installed to load 
> sound fonts?

My understanding is that most people use a software MIDI device such as
timidity to "play" the MIDI through a PCM sound device.

--
Craig Ringer