From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 28 14:28:38 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8156316A41F for ; Mon, 28 Nov 2005 14:28:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from mail24.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail24.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.26]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1761E43D9F for ; Mon, 28 Nov 2005 14:28:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: (qmail 19420 invoked from network); 28 Nov 2005 14:28:18 -0000 Received: from dsl092-078-145.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO be-well.ilk.org) ([66.92.78.145]) (envelope-sender ) by mail24.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 28 Nov 2005 14:28:18 -0000 Received: by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix, from userid 1147) id 4BC2728445; Mon, 28 Nov 2005 09:28:18 -0500 (EST) Sender: lowell@be-well.ilk.org To: Marco Beishuizen References: From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 28 Nov 2005 09:28:18 -0500 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <444q5wlud9.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 19 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: FreeBSD questions mailing list Subject: Re: enabling audio cd sound in emu10kx driver X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 14:28:38 -0000 Marco Beishuizen writes: > I would like to enable sound for my dvd player so I can listen to audio > cd's. I installed the driver for my Audigy2 in the ports (emu10kx). Sound > is working fine, except for audio cd's. > > I once had the old driver installed which came with "emuctrl", a program > which controls the volume. Entering "emuctrl set in1 100" enabled sound for > the cd player. But with the new driver in the ports emuctrl doesn't work > anymore and mixer is unable to control the volume for in1. > > So my question is how to enable the volume for the dvd player with this > driver. Sounds like you don't have an analog audio cable; these are not coming installed standard as often as they used to, as Windows is doing digital sound by default these days. If this is the problem, you can either put in such a cable yourself, or use digital audio (xmms can do this easily, for example).