[wplug] ALSA, Audigy, and Audio CDs

[Robert E. Coutch]

Two questions:

Is this an Audigy or Audigy 2 sound card?

Is the CD audio connected via analog or digital connection?

If you are using the digital connection, use ALSA mixer to set the volume 
level for the Audigy CD control (way over on the right side of the mixer) as 
opposed to the normal CD volume control (near the middle of the mixer).
Other mixers (such as qa-mix, kmix, etc.) don't seem to include this control.

-Bob

On Friday 19 November 2004 03:26 pm, Hagbard Celine wrote:
> Hi peoples,
>
> I recently set up ALSA on 2.4.26 for an Audigy sound card.  Now I can play
> just about any sound file I have with *shiny new technology* :)
>
> But...
>
> I'd been using playcd (http://www.fnordnet.net/playcd) to hear audio CDs,
> and I can't get a peep out of it now.  alsaplayer works, but (A) it's a GUI
> app (I want something that will run from the command line, which is why I
> wrote playcd in the first place), and (B) it starts hiccuping on some
> really long tracks (I guess that the alsaplayer author didn't anticipate 45
> minute tracks
>
> :)
>
> Putting two and two together, it *looks* as if the Audigy under ALSA isn't
> paying attention to the signals coming over the little grey cable from the
> CD drive.  Do I have to kick the sound card in the ass to get it to listen
> to the drive, or is this a limitation of ALSA?  I surely can fix it either
> way, but I'm interested in knowing if anyone knows *which* way, to give me
> something of a head start...
>
> Thanks many much to all, in advance,
> Hagbard
>
> Oh, and do I see correctly the the December GUM topic is DocBook?  If so, I
> *definitely* need to actually show up for this one (if Saturday bus service
> still exists)...
>
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