[kde-freebsd] Basically: why such troubles with KDE audio?

[Michael Nottebrock]

On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 10:55:48AM -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
> 
> 	Folks,
> 	 
> 	Long-short-short, at least two Gnome-type players work:
> 	sound-juicer and gnome-cd.  But KsCD gives no audio.
> 
> 	I am logged in as root while doing this initial testing,
> 	after Roland Smith <rsmith at xs4all.nl>, noted that my
> 	mountpoints had to be chown'd to [username].   I do want to use
> 	tools like K3B so the cc to the kde-freebsd list.    But still
> 	wondering, even tho I can get the KDE CD play  to display, and to
> 	act as tho it is working---the digits count, the slider moves:
> 	nothing from the speakers.  When I bring up gnome-cd, I have
> 	audio.

KsCD does not support digital playback of Audio CDs on FreeBSD. Your drive 
needs to be connected to your soundcard/onboard sound chip via a cable and the 
mixer corresponding with the audio input of the sound card/chip needs to be pulled up. Applications using the audiocd ioslave to play back CDs (such as AmaroK)
do not have this requirement. 

Cheers,
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