Sound problem

[Mark Thomas]

>>> Mark Thomas wrote:
>>>
>>>>>> Newbie asks...
>>>>I have turned on all muted controls in the Volume Control and set
>>>> them to
>>>> full volume. Lsmod is loaded. The card is a Sound Blaster Audgy 2 2Z.
>>>> After
>>>> running the sound detection software, adjusting the volume settings 
>>>> etc,
>>>> many times, there still is no sound at all. I even tried lying to the
>>>> system
>>>> and told it I could hear the sound just to see if it made any
>>>> difference,
>>>> but it did not. Bt under FC1, it worked.
>>>>
>>> I have an Audigy2 card and I need to mute the 'Analogue/Digital Output
>>> Jack' to get any sound.
>>>
>>>    david
>>
>>
>> Thanks for replying, David. I have started to get things going. I cannot
>> play a CD., but I was able to import a CD and have the files play back.
>> Unlike your settings, I find I cannot mute "Analog/Digital Output." Nor
>> can I mute the 2nd PCM slider.
>>
>> Now if I can get the CD playing working. In an Audigy2, should you be
>> able to hear the playing CD in the Audigy headphone jack? I am thinking
>> that there might be a hardware setup problem.
>>
>> Mark
>
> Is the card setup in /etc/modprobe.conf to save and restore
> An oldie but a goodie - is the cable correctly installed between
> cd/sound card.
> I use gnome-alsamixer to do adjustments where kmix or alsamixer won't
> but I think it's not around anymore.
> I use to have the problem of sound at the startup of kde,then when
> showing the desktop it stopped mid .wav.
> Have you tried www.alsa-project.org lots of info
>
>        david
I have solved my problem. I noticed that the sound card was connected to the 
CD player using a digital connection. I suppose that the Audigy does not 
convert digital to audio, but keeps them separate. I connected the two 
together using an additional analog cable and everything works.

Thank you
Mark
.