No sound on KsCD (Mandrake 10.1)

[Jim Anderson]

I'm installing Mandrake 10.1 on my PC and I'm having a problem
with the CD player. There is no sound.

The CD software is KsCD. When I place a
CD in the CD player, a KsCD window pops up. It shows the
sound track advancing, the author of the CD, the number
and name of the sound track. It also shows volume at 40%.

I know the speakers are good since I took them off a working
PC with sound. There is a always the chance that there
is hardware is failing, but I'll ignore that for now.

When I look at sound in the Mandrakelinux control center,
it lists the sound card with the following with the
information shown at the end of this post.

Can anyone help with this sound problem?

Thank you in advance.

Jim Anderson

Identification
Vendor: ‎VIA Technologies
Description: ‎VT8233 [AC97 Audio Controller]
Media class: ‎MULTIMEDIA_AUDIO
Connection
Bus: ‎PCI
Bus PCI #: ‎0
PCI device #: ‎17
PCI function #: ‎5
Vendor ID: ‎4358
Device ID: ‎12377
Sub vendor ID: ‎4358
Sub device ID: ‎40963
Driver
Module: ‎snd-via82xx
Alternative drivers: ‎via82cxxx_audio

[Bit Twister]

Post by Jim Anderson
I'm installing Mandrake 10.1 on my PC and I'm having a problem
with the CD player. There is no sound.

Can we assume you have looked on the back of the cdrom and verifed the
little 4 pin audio cable is hooked between the cdrom and motherboard?

[Jim Anderson]

Post by Bit Twister

Post by Jim Anderson
I'm installing Mandrake 10.1 on my PC and I'm having a problem
with the CD player. There is no sound.

Can we assume you have looked on the back of the cdrom and verifed the
little 4 pin audio cable is hooked between the cdrom and motherboard?

No. This is an external DVD writer connected via a USB 2.0 cable.
My assumption is that audio data gets transferred from the write
to the PC via the USB cable. Is this a bad assumption?

[Jim Anderson]

Post by Bit Twister

Post by Jim Anderson
I'm installing Mandrake 10.1 on my PC and I'm having a problem
with the CD player. There is no sound.

Can we assume you have looked on the back of the cdrom and verifed the
little 4 pin audio cable is hooked between the cdrom and motherboard?

Oops, disregard my previous reply. I'm working on a question
about my DVD write and I neglected to my a context switch in my
head.

Yes, I double checked the audio on the CD Player and it is connected.

Jim

[Jim Anderson]

Post by Bit Twister

Post by Jim Anderson
I'm installing Mandrake 10.1 on my PC and I'm having a problem
with the CD player. There is no sound.

Can we assume you have looked on the back of the cdrom and verifed the
little 4 pin audio cable is hooked between the cdrom and motherboard?

I'm sorry, disregard my previous reply. I'm working on
an issue with my DVD writer and I did not make a context
switch back to the CDROM.

The answer to you question is 'yes'. I did check that the audio
cable is connected to the CDROM player.

Jim