more fun on the gentoo front
so, more on the audio cd playing problem under gentoo i experienced yesterday..
every now and then, i tend to overlook certain things that in the end, turns out to be quite important. though, overlook is not exactly the word, in yesterday’s case, i completely forgot.
how did i fix the audio cd problem?
1) connect the cd-rom to the soundcard using the analog line-out audio cable.
2) and this is the most frustrating part coz this is the easiest and i remembered this last. unmute your fucking cd rom drive in your mixer settings! easily done in windows… but in my case, i’m using alsa, built in-kernel.
amerei@heaven ~ $ amixer set CD 100% unmute on Simple mixer control 'CD',0 Capabilities: pvolume pswitch pswitch-joined cswitch cswitch-joined cswitch-exclusive Capture exclusive group: 0 Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: Playback 0 - 31 Front Left: Playback 31 [100%] [on] Capture [off] Front Right: Playback 31 [100%] [on] Capture [off]
3) this is really optional .. add /etc/init.d/alsasound to my runlevel … so that mixer settings will be restored at every boot.
i’ve learned something new again. school sucks.
