[linux-laptop] cd sound not working on Dell 1200

[wwp]

Hello Ski,


On Sun, 25 Sep 2005 08:19:04 -0700 Ski Kacoroski <kacoroski at comcast.net> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have tried ubuntu 5.04, 5.10 and Debian stable (sarge).  In all cases, 
> the system sounds work and mp3's play fine.  The audio cd plays, but no 
> sound comes out.  I run alsaconf and it says everything is ok (finds the 
> card as an i810xxx).

I'm experiencing the same w/ a Dell Latitude D810 running FC3. No sound when
playing CD from GNOME or KDE's cd players w/ default settings whereas sound
levels seem normal and other playback is fine.

The only way to got it workign was using KsCD or XMMS' libcdread/libcdaudio
plugins in digital audio extraction mode instead of direct analog mode. Would
it work for you too?

I wonder if it matters, but I'm not able to turn on DMA to /dev/hdb (the
cd/dvd player), due to a lack of atapi support in the ata support in kernel
(2.6.12 from FC3), which seems a classical issue w/ recent laptops that have
sata controllers to serve atapi cd/dvd drives. I wonder if this is related..


Regards,

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wwp