Sound problem

[david walcroft]

Mark Thomas wrote:

>>
>>
>> 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
> .

AFAIK with a digital connection on your cd/dvd to Audigy card it needs 
digital speakers to complete the system.(I may be wrong)

   david