Sound Card - More info

[Padiyath Sreekumaran]

  Hello,
   I sent the following mail yesterday. I got some hints of making a sound
test with sndconfig file as well as kde sound card test. The sound test
 Works. The loud speaker as well as the sound card works. I put a CD in CD
Player. I started the KsCD SW. I see a message "No matching freedb entry
found". The music format is cda. I see in the display of KsCD that the music
is started and the CD player light is also blinking. But Iam not hearing
anything through the Loudspeaker.Why I donot get any sound through the
 loudspeaker.? Whether I should use some other music format? Is there any
other CD player which can give some more info? Is there any debugging
facility? My loudspeaker connections are okay since I hear the test.
Any idea? I also installed xmms SW with out success.

 Best regards,
   Kumar
 

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My mail sent on 14th.Sep.2004
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  Hello,
     I have a linux PC with the following configuration.

     #uname -a gives 
     Linux pc4289 2.4.20-28.9 #1 Thu Dec 18 13:45:22 EST 2003 i686 i686 i386
GNU/Linux

   #cat /etc/redhat-release
   Red Hat Linux release 9 (Shrike)

   #lspci
    00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82845G/GL [Brookdale-G] Chipset Host
Bridge (rev 01) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82845G/GL [Brookdale-G]
Chipset AGP Bridge (rev 01) 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB USB
(Hub #1) (rev 01) 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB USB (Hub #2)
(rev 01) 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB USB (Hub #3) (rev 01)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB USB EHCI Controller (rev 01)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BA/CA/DB PCI Bridge (rev 81) 00:1f.0
ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801DB ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 01) 00:1f.1 IDE
interface: Intel Corp. 82801DB ICH4 IDE (rev 01) 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp.
82801DB SMBus (rev 01) 00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp.
82801DB AC'97 Audio (rev 01)  <------------------ 01:00.0 VGA compatible
controller: nVidia Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 MX 440SE AGP 8x] (rev a2)
02:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82801BD PRO/100 VM (LOM) Ethernet
Controller (rev 81)

    I would like to have a driver to use the CD player.
    Where I can get the driver SW? Whether the driver SW
    is available in RPM format? How can I add the module to the
    kernel? Iam new to Linux OS.

    #lsmod gives
    Module                  Size  Used by    Tainted: PF 
ipv6                  177748  -1 
i810_audio             27624   0  (autoclean)
ac97_codec             14568   0  (autoclean) [i810_audio]
soundcore               6404   2  (autoclean) [i810_audio]
libafs-2.4.20-24.9    487056   2 
e100                   54596   1 
sg                     36524   0  (autoclean)
sr_mod                 18136   0  (autoclean)
ide-scsi               12208   0 
scsi_mod              107544   3  [sg sr_mod ide-scsi]
ide-cd                 35712   0 
cdrom                  33728   0  [sr_mod ide-cd]
keybdev                 2976   0  (unused)
mousedev                5556   1 
hid                    22244   0  (unused)
input                   5856   0  [keybdev mousedev hid]
usb-uhci               26412   0  (unused)
ehci-hcd               20072   0  (unused)
usbcore                79040   1  [hid usb-uhci ehci-hcd]
ext3                   70784   2 
jbd                    51924   2  [ext3]


 I use kde. Which SW can I use to play the CD? Iam new to 
 Linux.

  Regards,
  Kumar