Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 23:34:31 -0800 From: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> To: Andreas Davour <ante@Update.UU.SE> Cc: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, KDE at FreeBSD List <kde-freebsd@kde.org> Subject: Re: Basically: why such troubles with KDE audio? Message-ID: <20071123073431.GB92392@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0711230535490.25566@Psilocybe.Update.UU.SE> References: <20071120185548.GA43505@thought.org> <Pine.LNX.4.64.0711230535490.25566@Psilocybe.Update.UU.SE>
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On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 05:44:21AM +0100, Andreas Davour wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Nov 2007, Gary Kline wrote:
[[ ... ]]
>
> > Suggestions from KDE-land, please?
>
> As have been mentioned, you don't have to mount a CD to use KsCD to play
> music.
>
> Do 'cat /dev/sndstat' to determine if you have more than one sound card.
> Take note of which you want to use.
>
> Do 'mixer' in order to see if the volume is set correctly. Mixer man
> manipulate more than one device if you use the -f flag.
>
> Now, in KDE I hope you have checked the 'kmix' volumes? Note also that
> you can right-click on kmix in the task bar and set what channel the
> master volume is controlling. It wont help you hearing any sound from
> the CD if the volume slider is controlling the RecMon...
>
> Hope that gave you some places to look and investigate.
>
Thanks for your input, but it was ignorance that KsCD is not for
playback of audio CD's on FBSD. This from Michael Nottebrook.
I got into amarok today--this time I actually read the docs--
so maybe I'll be able to use amarok to do most of my audio.
gary
> /Andreas
>
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