From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 8 17:24:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.urx.com (mail.urx.com [63.170.19.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10BB937B422 for ; Sun, 8 Apr 2001 17:24:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@urx.com) Received: from urx.com [206.159.132.160] by mail.urx.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-6.06) id A132C0A0182; Sun, 08 Apr 2001 17:24:18 -0700 Message-ID: <3AD10132.12323680@urx.com> Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2001 17:24:18 -0700 From: Kent Stewart Reply-To: kstewart@urx.com Organization: Dynacom X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Diana Gibraiel Cc: Siegbert Baude , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Newbie Sound Problem References: <20010409000744.55697.qmail@web12207.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Diana Gibraiel wrote: > > The mixer tells me the following: > > Mixer vol is currently set to 75:75 > Mixer synth is currently set to 75:75 > Mixer pcm is currently set to 75:75 > Mixer line is currently set to 75:75 > Mixer mic is currently set to 75:75 > Mixer cd is currently set to 75:75 > > I went to the KDE control center, and under that Sound and then System Sounds, and I tested system > sounds from there. I also tried the media player under KDE, and didn’t get any error messages > (nothing happens when I try to play the file; the time counter just stays at 0:00). I also opened > the midi player under KDE, and it gives me this error message on its screen: “ERROR Can’t open > output device”. > > Though I’m pretty sure it’s an at least partially an unrelated problem (but I figure it can’t hurt > to mention it here), I can’t play audio CDs with KDE’s CD player. I get this message when I try: > “CDROM read or access error > cd player: please make sure you have access permissions to /dev/rmatcd0c” > even though I do have access permissions to /dev/rmatcd0c. But you don't have an old Panasonic CD player. You need to change that to /dev/acd0c or if you created the link making /dev/cdrom, then you add that to the device in kscd. Kent > > --- Siegbert Baude wrote: > > > I then tried playing .wav files from KDE to test it, and nothing happened. > > > > What does mixer tell you? This little program is the volume control of > > your sound card. A typical output would look like: > > > > bash-2.04$ mixer > > Mixer vol is currently set to 100:100 > > Mixer bass is currently set to 50:50 > > Mixer treble is currently set to 50:50 > > Mixer synth is currently set to 75:75 > > Mixer pcm is currently set to 100:100 > > Mixer speaker is currently set to 75:75 > > Mixer line is currently set to 75:75 > > Mixer mic is currently set to 0:0 > > Mixer cd is currently set to 100:100 > > Mixer igain is currently set to 0:0 > > Mixer ogain is currently set to 50:50 > > bash-2.04$ > > > > For playing wav files the pcm and (overall) vol line are important. > > > > BTW, which program did you use and were there any error messages? > > > > Ciao > > Siegbert > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > ===== > "We understand the possibility of determining their shapes, > their sizes and motion, whereas never, by any means, will > we be able to study their chemical composition." > -Auguste Compte on stars, _Course de Philosophie Positive_ (1835) > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. > http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message