[plug] Mandrake LE2005

[David Dartnall]

Richard Meyer wrote:

>On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 13:03 +0800, Craig Ringer wrote:
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>>On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 11:29 +0800, David Dartnall wrote:
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>>>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.
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>>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.
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>>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.
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>>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.
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>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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Thank you to Craig and Richard - the cd volume can indeed be adjusted 
separately on the mixer, but I find alsamixer confusing!

It looks as though I've still some need for help. Trying to configure 
the system using KDE's configuration window produces the following error 
message:

Sound server informational message:
Error while initializing the sound driver:
device: default can't be opened for playback (Device or resource busy) 
The sound server will continue, using the null output device.

What does this signify?

Dave Dartnall