Laptop sound strangeness...

[Phil Schaffner]

On Thu, 2004-11-18 at 08:53 -0500, John Burton wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> I've installed FC3 on a HP/Compaq nx7000 laptop. The "fresh" install 
> went normally. Yum updates went normally. The end result is a KDE3.3.1 
> desktop with wireless (ipw2100), modem (snd-intel8x0m) and WXGA 
> (1680x1050) display. After putting snd-intel8x0 in 
> /etc/hotplug/blacklist, Sound seemed to work normally. I've been able to 
> "rip" songs from a CD and store them on disk, play them back with xmms, 
> zinf, realplayer, rythmbox, kaboodle, & KPlayer. The "strangeness" is 
> the when I went to simply "play" an audio CD using KsCD. It started 
> fine, and managed to get the correct CDDB information on ablum, artist, 
> track, etc. When i pressed "play" it acted like it was playing, (CD 
> drive was being accessed, time counting on the display, etc) but no 
> sound came out. Checked the volume settings and everything was fine, 
> same as when I was playing music with the other players.
> 
> Thoughts? Suggestions?

Check that the CD device is not muted or at zero volume in the "Input"
tab of the mixer (at least for KMix - YMMV).

Phil