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

[Gary Kline]

On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 05:44:21AM +0100, Andreas Davour wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Nov 2007, Gary Kline wrote:

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> 
> >	Suggestions from KDE-land, please?
> 
> As have been mentioned, you don't have to mount a CD to use KsCD to play 
> music.
> 
> Do 'cat /dev/sndstat' to determine if you have more than one sound card. 
> Take note of which you want to use.
> 
> Do 'mixer' in order to see if the volume is set correctly. Mixer man 
> manipulate more than one device if you use the -f flag.
> 
> Now, in KDE I hope you have checked the 'kmix' volumes? Note also that 
> you can right-click on kmix in the task bar and set what channel the 
> master volume is controlling. It wont help you hearing any sound from 
> the CD if the volume slider is controlling the RecMon...
> 
> Hope that gave you some places to look and investigate.
> 

	Thanks for your input, but it was ignorance that KsCD is not for 
	playback  of audio CD's on FBSD.  This from Michael Nottebrook.
	I  got into amarok today--this time I actually read the docs--
	so maybe I'll be able to use amarok to do most of my audio.

	gary


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