[plug] Mandrake LE2005

[Richard Meyer]

On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 13:03 +0800, Craig Ringer wrote:
> 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.

I can't really help with most of your questions, but if you can't get
any sound out of alsamixer, press "m" (for mute/unmute), and then you
should be able to adjust the volume.
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