Description of problem: I cannot hear anything from the CD player. I do hear 'events' though, so it seems as though the wiring to the external speakers, etc. is working OK. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): This is soon after doing a yum update \* (excluding gimp and subversion ...) How reproducible: This problem has been there for a long time (I haven't ever heard anything from this CD player). Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot 2. log in as user1, startx (I am booting into level 3) 3. Open CD Player in Gnome 4. Stick in CD 5. I can see track labels and the play time ticking away 6. I have played with all volume controls 7. Cannot hear sound from CD Actual results: No sound from CD Expected results: I should be able to play a CD Additional info: This is the log soon after boot and log in as user1 and startx [root@hoho2 user1]# tail /var/log/messages May 29 01:26:33 hoho2 kernel: intel8x0_measure_ac97_clock: measured 49822 usecs May 29 01:26:33 hoho2 kernel: intel8x0: clocking to 48000 May 29 01:26:34 hoho2 bonobo-activation-server (user1-3027): iid OAFIID:BrokenNoType:20000808 has a NULL type May 29 01:26:34 hoho2 bonobo-activation-server (user1-3027): invalid character '#' in iid 'OAFIID:This#!!%$iid%^$%_|~!OAFIID_ContainsBadChars' May 29 01:26:36 hoho2 modprobe: FATAL: Error running install command for sound_slot_1 May 29 01:26:47 hoho2 modprobe: FATAL: Error running install command for sound_slot_1 May 29 01:27:07 hoho2 system-config-soundcard(pam_unix)[3145]: authentication failure; logname= uid=500 euid=0 tty= ruser=user1 rhost= user=user1 May 29 01:27:26 hoho2 system-config-soundcard(pam_unix)[3145]: auth could not identify password for [user1] May 29 01:27:28 hoho2 system-config-soundcard(pam_unix)[3145]: 1 more authentication failure; logname= uid=500 euid=0 tty= ruser=user1 rhost= user=user1 May 29 01:27:40 hoho2 su(pam_unix)[3167]: session opened for user root by user1(uid=500) [root@hoho2 user1]# [root@hoho2 user1]# /sbin/lsmod | more Module Size Used by snd_mixer_oss 17792 2 snd_intel8x0 31276 3 snd_ac97_codec 59140 1 snd_intel8x0 snd_pcm 76804 1 snd_intel8x0 snd_timer 22532 1 snd_pcm snd_page_alloc 12040 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm gameport 7424 1 snd_intel8x0 snd_mpu401_uart 9088 1 snd_intel8x0 snd_rawmidi 21924 1 snd_mpu401_uart snd_seq_device 10120 1 snd_rawmidi snd 45028 10 snd_mixer_oss,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device soundcore 10336 3 snd radeon 111956 2 ipv6 214496 22 parport_pc 23616 1 lp 12300 0 parport 34632 2 parport_pc,lp autofs4 18052 0 sunrpc 119012 1 e1000 73356 0 ipt_REJECT 8704 1 ipt_state 5504 1 ip_conntrack 30348 1 ipt_state iptable_filter 6016 1 ip_tables 18048 3 ipt_REJECT,ipt_state,iptable_filter floppy 52336 0 sg 32288 0 microcode 10400 0 dm_mod 37536 0 uhci_hcd 28952 0 ehci_hcd 26628 0 button 8600 0 battery 10892 0 asus_acpi 12952 0 ac 7308 0 ext3 108776 2 jbd 50328 1 ext3 aic79xx 182812 4 sd_mod 20352 6 scsi_mod 97608 3 sg,aic79xx,sd_mod [root@hoho2 user1]#
What's the volume like for the CD in the mixer?
mixer? what mixer? When I go into Preferences -> Volume Control I see two tabs - Realtek ALX650 rev2 [Audio Mixer (OSS)] and Intel 82801DB-iCH4 [Alsa Mixer] All the volume control sliders that say CD are at the top, the Master Control is at the top and the volume on the CD player applet is also at the top. (hmm, those events are loud). But no CD sounds I have an onboard Intel PCM chip for sound - no sound blaster card or other sound card.
Is there a cable from the CD to the motherboard for audio? Did this work in previous releases?
An audio cable came in the box, but I think it is for the TV card - to plug sound from TV card to Line-in. (Don't ask, haven't pulled TV cable up to where the computer box is located..) TV application seems to work though. Rabbit ears pulls in some fuxxy channels. But not worth plugging in audio cable. Haven't explored whether there is a cable connection (needed?) from CD to motherboard. The CD is a Toshiba with DVD read capability and CD burn ability. The motherboard is a Supermicro. (I would give you model numbers, but I am temporarily locked out of root (experimenting with SELinux..) - need to power cycle. This is a relatively new machine. It was originally fitted out with RH9. Playing CD records never did work (but I'm not much of a music freak, so I did not push it). I was upgrading various pieces of RH9 with Alsa in an attempt to get sound. Unsucessful. Not a very good data point. However, reading data CDs worked fine and burning CDs also worked fine. This current (updated-devel) version of Fedora2 works for reading data CDs, but I haven't figured out how to burn CDs from iso datafiles (e.g., FC2 disks), so I reboot in RH9 and use gcombust.
Does playing CDs with something like 'grip' work?
[user1@hoho2 user1]$ man grip No manual entry for grip [user1@hoho2 user1]$ which grip /usr/bin/which: no grip in (/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/home/user1/bin) [user1@hoho2 user1]$ [root@hoho2 user1]# yum install grip ... Installed: grip 1:3.0.7-4.i386 Transaction(s) Complete [root@hoho2 user1]# grip ---- I get the track listing (the record is "Future Sounds of Jazz - vol 5" (my son has a track on that disk), the timer is going, the volume is up, but no sound.
Oops, wrong app. Go to xmms, choose 'Play Location', enter /mnt/cdrom. You'll probably get the same 'silent' behavior here when playing. Then, go to Options->Preferences. Select 'CD Audio Player' and choose 'configure'. Switch it from 'Analog' to "Digital Audio Extraction'. Does that yield volume?
With xmms, I get CD Track 01 - the timer is incrementing, but no sound. Hmm, going to Preferences -> CD and DVD, I get an error dialog box "The Application "gnome CD-properties unexpectedly quit" Clicking the 'Restart" button makes the dialog go away, but nothing else happens. /var/log/messages for last while [root@hoho2 log]# tail messages Jun 1 13:30:59 hoho2 kernel: agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:01:00.0 into 1x mode Jun 1 13:30:59 hoho2 kernel: [drm] Loading R200 Microcode Jun 1 13:30:59 hoho2 modprobe: FATAL: Error running install command for sound_slot_1 Jun 1 13:31:03 hoho2 modprobe: FATAL: Error running install command for sound_slot_1 Jun 1 13:34:42 hoho2 ntpd[2293]: synchronized to 66.187.233.4, stratum=1 Jun 1 13:34:42 hoho2 ntpd[2293]: kernel time sync disabled 0041 Jun 1 13:42:13 hoho2 ntpd[2293]: kernel time sync enabled 0001 Jun 1 14:54:30 hoho2 su(pam_unix)[3889]: session opened for user root by user1(uid=500) Jun 1 15:22:33 hoho2 kernel: hda: packet command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } Jun 1 15:22:33 hoho2 kernel: hda: packet command error: error=0x50 [root@hoho2 log]# The earlier messages are part of the boot sequence. The time now is about 15:29 The 15:22 message may have been from the xmms. No log file entry from the Preferences -> CD and DVD dialog box.
Argh, sorry. Options->Preferences *in xmms*. (Right click on the upper-left of the titlebar should open the menu.)
OK, got it. When I click on the 'Check Drive' button (after switching to Play Mode -> Digital Audio extraction, the CD Player (??) dialog box opens (may have been coincidental - had play on insert checked) and has track name and timer goes, but no sound. Kill off CD Player window. XMMS disk check dialog window was up and says disk is OK, and digital extraction is OK (Disc has 9 tracks, etc.) Closing test dialog, click APPLY and OK closes preferences box. xmms is humming along, track is shown, timer is moving. No sound yet.
Hm. Can you attach the output of the 'amixer' command?
Created attachment 100777 [details] Output of amixer without any arguments
This is output with argument info [root@hoho2 log]# amixer info Card default 'I82801DBICH4'/'Intel 82801DB-ICH4 at 0xd0000c00, irq 177' Mixer name : 'Realtek ALC650 rev 2' Components : 'AC97a' Controls : 51 Simple ctrls : 34 [root@hoho2 log]# Harware browser confirms Intel chip - adds 'AC97' phrase ---- I will be 'unplugged' until next Monday - family vacation --
One other piece of information - there is no speaker in the box - event sounds play through external speaker system - plugged into back of box, not any card.
Hm, nothing looks wrong there in the config. If I had to say, it's just that there's no cable from the CD-ROM to the motherboard for sound. That doesn't explain why using digital extraction in xmms isn't working for you, though.
So, I bought an audio cable last week and finally got around to plugging it in a few minutes ago. It is a 6ft cable as it needs to come from the jack on the front of the CD drive around to the back where the Line-In jack is located. Results - yep, I now get CD sound through the speakers. The volume responds to the taskbar slider, the 'Volume' section and the 'Line-in' section of the expanded 'Volume Control' dialog. Moving the 'CD' slider has no effect on the music. (currently playing 'The Alkan Project' - nice collection of short piano pieces by composer Alkan, who was a neighbor of Chopin in Paris and who died in 1888 - a bookcase fell on him) ---------- I upgraded most of my FC this morning and lots of things now work. I will go back over the suggestions for getting digital sound out of the CD player - maybe that works now??
Wow - put xmms in the Gnome 'Run Application' window, hit enter - and it hung my system. Cursor stopped, no response to keyboard, network lights steady - no blinking. Flat line. Power cycle to recover. I guess xmms has not been upgraded as yet - udev and other features probably missing.. Too bad. [user1@hoho2 user1]$ cat /proc/version Linux version 2.6.7-1.476smp (bhcompile.redhat.com) (gcc version 3.4.1 20040702 (Red Hat Linux 3.4.1-2)) #1 SMP Wed Jul 7 14:56:17 EDT 2004 [user1@hoho2 user1]$
Hm, if it hung the system, that's a new kernel bug, almost certainly.
Hey, cool I went back to xmms (this is after updating kernel to -478smp) and selected /mnt/cdrom in Play Location. Changing CD Player preferences to Digial extraction, etc. I also struggled with getting font sizes bigger. xmms does not respond to Optiongs->preferences->fonts . I edited what I saw to bgger fonts and it did not change - even after Apply and OK. Quiting xmms and going back to that spot - at least what I had edited was still there. I probably need to spend more time - perhaps browsing to 'real' fonts.. Anyway, I quit xmms, plugged in the Alkan music disk and then started up xmms. The music began to play almost immediately, but then I saw the regular Gnome CD Player on the screen - prefs there are that it will start when a disk (music?) is inserted. I swatted down the CD Player and then did the Play location selection to /mnt/cdrom on xmms. It played music !!. And, what is really great is that when I unplugged the audio cable from the front of the CD drive - THE MUSIC CONTINUED TO PLAY. Great - thanks much. Works for me. (Would be nice if the Gnome CD Player had a digital extraction mode as well as xmms. the fonts are so much better.)