ShineDesign Posted September 14, 2004 Report Share Posted September 14, 2004 Hey everybody, My CD-ROM drive will play audio CD's just fine, I can hear them and everything. MP3 / WMA / System files however are a different subject...they ACT like they're playing...but no audio comes out. Any ideas why this is? -SD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShineDesign Posted September 14, 2004 Author Report Share Posted September 14, 2004 Ok, so I thought it may be an issue with my ALSA, so I ran: alsaconf alsamixer alsactl store and now I get sound...but it's static. At first, right after running alsaconf I got a horrible high pitched sound, so I muted the Capture section of alsamixer and that fixed it. However, my audio for mp3/wma files still don't play...only static can be heard. What's going on here? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devries Posted September 14, 2004 Report Share Posted September 14, 2004 It's a mixer problem I think. Mute every channel in alsamixer (there is a gui version called alsamixergui (urpmi alsamixergui)) and open them one after an other while an mp3 is playing. Don't use alsaconf (it's for setting up your soundcard. Mandrake should do that for you so use the MCC) And don't use alsactl. :) It's a little application to change settings. Better use alsmamixer (or kmix in KDE) Good luck Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShineDesign Posted September 14, 2004 Author Report Share Posted September 14, 2004 Thanks for the reply! I already have gone into alsamixer and muted / unmuted every chanel individually, the only one that made a difference was Capture. So that's muted now, but still no audio from MP3's. Any other ideas? Thanks -SD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devries Posted September 14, 2004 Report Share Posted September 14, 2004 Try the amixer command 'amixer -c0 set 'Master (or PCM etc )' 100 unmute' (without the '') Are you sure alsa is working? You don't get any errors? Good luck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShineDesign Posted September 14, 2004 Author Report Share Posted September 14, 2004 No errors with alsa, and I do get noise from my speakers when I play MP3 files...it's just static noise though. Like a really bad radio reception that doesn't have any audible song playing. I play an MP3 file and only durring the duration of the song does static come through my speakers... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
papaschtroumpf Posted September 14, 2004 Report Share Posted September 14, 2004 Did you apply any "coolbit" cooling trick to your computer (especially if it's an AMD)? Those screw up PCI timing and may cause the behavior you're seeing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShineDesign Posted September 14, 2004 Author Report Share Posted September 14, 2004 I'm not familiar with coolbit, so I would assume no :) Sound works fine from windows, and again the CD player in MDK10 plays sound just fine as well. It's only files stored on the harddrive, played through linux that don't play anything but static. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShineDesign Posted September 15, 2004 Author Report Share Posted September 15, 2004 DUHHHH....I'm a complete dolt! I should have known to think of this FIRST, especially after all my years of mastering the Windows OS! ..........Totem didn't have the right codecs to play the audio! Opened them in Mplayer...works great!..... DDDEEEERRRRRR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devries Posted September 15, 2004 Report Share Posted September 15, 2004 :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShineDesign Posted September 16, 2004 Author Report Share Posted September 16, 2004 Except...no system sounds play...at all. Even Kopete won't play sounds...any ideas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devries Posted September 16, 2004 Report Share Posted September 16, 2004 Look in the kde control center, sound & multimedia, system notifications and play with the settings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShineDesign Posted September 17, 2004 Author Report Share Posted September 17, 2004 Ok, everything plays just fine from the system notifications screen, but when I'm actually using the various applications - no sound is played. Kopete for example, the sounds play just fine from the system notifications screen within KControl, but they don't play at all from within kopete's configuration screen. I've even run Kopete as root to see if it was a permission thing...nope. Whats going on? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devries Posted September 17, 2004 Report Share Posted September 17, 2004 It seems there is something wrong with your system. From another post of yours I gathered you had trouble of booting into Linux. This nothing to worry about. When you start out in Linux you're sure to hose your system. Happened to me too. Now go and install Linux again. During the installation it will ask wahat partitions to use. Choose existing partition and then only let it format your / (and not your /home). That way all your settings and data will be saved. Good luck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShineDesign Posted September 17, 2004 Author Report Share Posted September 17, 2004 Yeah, as seen in my post about not being able to mount a drive in knoppix...my system is very hosed. I did as the readme instructions said (from the nvidia drivers) to fix an OpenGL problem, and my system won't boot into linux anymore. I'll re-install tomorrow when I get home from work...right now I need to get some sleep :) I'm just glad that the webserver I've implemented at my workplace isn't hosed! It's working great, just loaded the .mdb database today and everything is working like a charm. (mostly with the help of mandrakeusers.org!) Thanks MDKusers.org! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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