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Date:      28 Nov 2005 09:28:18 -0500
From:      Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org>
To:        Marco Beishuizen <marco@beishuizen.info>
Cc:        FreeBSD questions mailing list <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: enabling audio cd sound in emu10kx driver
Message-ID:  <444q5wlud9.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.64.0511270016130.55020@yokozuna.lan>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.64.0511270016130.55020@yokozuna.lan>

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Marco Beishuizen <marco@beishuizen.info> writes:

> I would like to enable sound for my dvd player so I can listen to audio 
> cd's. I installed the driver for my Audigy2 in the ports (emu10kx). Sound 
> is working fine, except for audio cd's.
> 
> I once had the old driver installed which came with "emuctrl", a program 
> which controls the volume. Entering "emuctrl set in1 100" enabled sound for 
> the cd player. But with the new driver in the ports emuctrl doesn't work 
> anymore and mixer is unable to control the volume for in1.
> 
> So my question is how to enable the volume for the dvd player with this 
> driver.

Sounds like you don't have an analog audio cable; these are not coming
installed standard as often as they used to, as Windows is doing
digital sound by default these days.  If this is the problem, you can
either put in such a cable yourself, or use digital audio (xmms can do
this easily, for example).



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