New prob, no music player works on this lappy.

[Robin Laing]

Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Thursday 27 April 2006 18:45, Mark Haney wrote:
> 
>>Gene Heskett wrote:
>>
>>>Greetings;
>>>
>>>HP laptop, dv5320us, light scribe cd/dvd writer drive.  FC5-i386
>>>installed.
>>>
>>>When I insert an audio cd, it eventially asks me what I want to do I
>>>clicked on play.  But that app, although it goes thru the motions (I
>>>think it was Kscd) is silent, and none of the input switches and
>>>buttons in kmix will do anything but bring up circuit noise, no
>>>audio seems to be making it from the cd reader to the rest of the
>>>system.
>>>
>>>When I looked in /media to see if hal or udev had created a device
>>>there, it had not done so.
>>>
>>>grip, noatun and a couple other apps are all similarly blessed with
>>>silence.
>>>
>>>Any good ideas as to what to check next?
>>
>>Just for fun, have you looked at alsamixer?  I've found that to be off
>>in every laptop I've ever setup.
> 
> 
> Most of it was on, and now all of it is.
> Alsamixer reports it as an ATI IXP with a chip=conexant id 30
> How do I change the 'view' to either capture or all?  Ahh, got that, F5 
> and its all on & cranked.  Nothing but circuit noises in the headphones 
> & nothing in the speakers.  All the kde noisemakers work just fine.
> 
> 
> 
>>--
>>Mark Haney
>>Sr. Systems Administrator
>>ERC Broadband
> 
> 

I don't use kde but on any laptop that I have installed FC on, I had to 
turn on the "External Amplifier" switch in Gnome Volume Control.  It 
took me a few days to find that one.


-- 
Robin Laing