SB Audigy now (mostly) works

[Fritz Whittington]

On or about 2004-08-06 05:08, Rahul Sadotra whipped out a trusty #2 
pencil and scribbled:

>Hello,
>
>Thank you Markus and Aaron for your responses.
>
> --- Markus Huber <humarfedoralists at yahoo.de> wrote:
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>>Aaron Gaudio schrieb:
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>>>On Thu, 2004-08-05 at 21:03 +0100, Rahul Sadotra
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>wrote:
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>>>>The only thing that doesn't work is CD playing.  I
>>>>still can't get CD output from the speakers (even
>>>>though I have put both CD and Audigy CD dials to 
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>full
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>>>>volume), although I can get CD output through
>>>>headphones and change volume through headphone 
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>volume
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>>>>control on my CD-RW and DVD-ROM drives (Which I
>>>>believe was suggested).
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>>>Have you tried using xmms's digital audio
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>extraction? 
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>>>Have you checked
>>>the analog multimedia cable(s) between the drive(s)
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>>>and your 
>>>soundcard?
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>>Or fitting the cable between CD-Player and 
>>motherboard? It sounds 
>>stupid, but I was that stupid who forgot that ;-)
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>I know that all cable connections are correct in my
>machine because I can get CD music output in Win XP
>(my PC is dual boot) through speakers whether I use my
>CD-RW or DVD-ROM drive.  Plus, I got CD music through
>my speakers when I used Red Hat Linux 9 (again, it
>worked on either drive).
>  
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Just a minor nit-pick here (which also I think is the source of your 
problems under Linux).  It is *NOT* sufficient to say that all your 
cable connections are correct just because you get CD music output in 
Windows XP!  Windows XP (and 2000 as well) default to the mode where the 
audio tracks are read *digitally* off of the CD and the resulting data 
is sent to the sound card just as if you were playing a WAV file. 

Linux, on the other hand, defaults to just telling the CD to start 
playing a certain track, and expects that the *analog* audio that 
results (like from out of the earphone jack, which you say is playing 
audio) will be routed from the back of the CD drive into an analog input 
on the sound card.  This is the cable that you probably don't have.  
It's easy enough to open up your box and see if there is a smallish 
round audio-type cable coming out of the back of the CD drive and routed 
to your sound card, or to a connector on the motherboard if your sound 
hardware is built-in to the motherboard.  (One workaround to installing 
the internal cable is to run a male-to-male stereo cable from the 
earphone output on the front of the CD around to the back of the box and 
plug it into the line-in input, *not* the microphone-in input, on your 
soundboard. )

You could also do a negative check, and in WinXP  go into the Device 
Manager, select the CD drive Properties, and UN-check the box that says 
"Use digital audio for this device".   After that, you should have the 
same symptoms as you do with Linux, that is, nothing coming out of the 
speakers, but music available at the earphone jack.

>As I already mentioned I upgraded RH 9 to Fedora Core
>2.  This solved the problem I had of using CD-RWs on
>my machine on my particular CD-RW drive (it used to
>take a really long time to mount any CD-RW) that I had
>- I have no such problems in Fedora Core 2, for CD-RWs
>can now be mounted very quickly.  I think the change
>in kernel from 2.4.x to 2.6.x helped a lot there.
>
>Unfortunately, CD music in Fedora Core 2 can only be
>listened to through headphones at the moment.  But
>I'll be okay with that.
>
>Yes, when I use XMMS's CD extraction tool and cdda2wav
>to create WAV files there is no problem playing music.
>
>Incidentally, my CD-RW drive is a TEAC CD-W524E, and
>my DVD-ROM drive is a LG DRD-8160B.
>
>I should have mentioned my PC is dual boot in my first
>post.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Rahul
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-- 
Fritz Whittington
I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none. (Ben Shahn)

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