Noobie to DSL

Forum: Other Help Topics
Topic: Noobie to DSL
started by: Bikerbob

Posted by Bikerbob on Feb. 25 2005,02:34

Hello people,

Just new to DSL, not to linux as a whole, although I have not spent as much time in it as I would like. I want a DESKTOP, nothing more really, so many of the previous linux distros have disappointed me... but the age of small and live cds and the new desktops like Gnome 2.8 have really cranked me up.

Anyway.. I am in DSL, I did the HD install. I am booting from my HD now. But I still can not get a music CD to mount using the slit on the desktop.. it gives me an error .. fail to mount with the three reasons it might not mount.

I know DSL loaded the drivers for my sound. I have downloaded and installed GAIM, and heard sound come from it, so I know that in principal sound is working... but I cannot get a cd to play either with WMIX or XMMS etc... XMMS will mount the CD and start to play the tracks.. but no sound.. and the hardware is setup correctly.

2nd.. and I feel stupid asking this.. HOW DO YOU CHANGE time and date in DSL??? I cant find an option anywhere and I click on the listing in the tool bar and get no option to change it.. LOL!!!! feeling stupid here..

James

Posted by mikshaw on Feb. 25 2005,02:41

don't mount audio cds...just play them.

You may need to open up your case and have a look inside. If your cdrom drive is not attached directly to the soundcard, you won't get any digital audio out of it, even though audio files on the harddrive might play.

for the system clock, use the 'date' application (sudo date 02240944...or something simlar).

Posted by Bikerbob on Feb. 25 2005,03:03

Quote (mikshaw @ Feb. 24 2005,21:41)

OK, date solved!!

dillo does not use Java I guess eh?

Oh well.. using Firefox now.

As for the sound.. it is wired up right inside. I guess I could hook up a win98 HD and see if I can get the cd to play there..

So xmms is what I should use? does Wmix not play cds? or it is just my sound control?

thanks mikshaw for the response!

james

Posted by Bikerbob on Feb. 25 2005,04:13

These are the lines from my dmesg... seems like I have two sets of drivers loaded... this will cause a conflict will it not?? Maybe this is why I am not getting music from my cd???

Soundblaster audio driver Copyright © by Hannu Savolainen 1993-1996
sb: CMI8330/C3D Audio Adapter detected
sb: ISAPnP reports 'CMI8330/C3D Audio Adapter' at i/o 0x220, irq 5, dma 1, 5
SB 4.13 detected OK (220)
sb: 1 Soundblaster PnP card(s) found.
ad1848/cs4248 codec driver Copyright © by Hannu Savolainen 1993-1996
ad1848: CMI 8330 SoundPRO detected
ad1848: ISAPnP reports 'CMI 8330 SoundPRO' at i/o 0x530, irq 0, dma 0, -1

ALso this puzzles me as well.. is this standard for the boot kernel from disk? how did these command lines get into it?

Kernel command line: auto BOOT_IMAGE=Linux ro root=301 hda=scsi hdb=scsi hdc=scsi hdd=scsi hde=scsi hdf=scsi hdg=scsi hdh=scsi apm=power-off nomce noapic
ide_setup: hda=scsi
ide_setup: hdb=scsi
ide_setup: hdc=scsi
ide_setup: hdd=scsi
ide_setup: hde=scsi
ide_setup: hdf=scsi
ide_setup: hdg=scsi
ide_setup: hdh=scsi

Also is there a way to see if DMA is being used? anyone want to see my whole dmesg and tell me where I am at???

thanks

Posted by cbagger01 on Feb. 25 2005,22:56

hdparm can tell you if DMA is being used:

< http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man8/hdparm.8.html >

Posted by ke4nt1 on Feb. 26 2005,07:13

Go into the xmms menus - choose > options > preferences

click on the audio I/O plugins tab

The first one is CD Audio Player , highlight, and click on the configure button

Under "Play mode" - select digital extraction

Now it should play audio cd's with or without a hardware cable.

73
ke4nt