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Calum:
hello all, yes i do like to come here first with my woes...

right well, i have a celery 700, 128MB RAM, with C-Media PCI sound card, running red hat 8. section follows:

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now this card is a bit funny.

here are the symptoms i have noticed so far:
when using GAIM, i have the choice of four methods of sound notification, they are: Console Beep, ESD, Internal & Command. Now i think only the first two are really sounds, the final one obviously means to run a command instead. Anyway, using ESD does NOT work. using Console Beep however does.
when using XMMS to play mp3s/oggs, sound works using the aRts driver but NOT with the eSound or OSS drivers.
when trying to play a CD - nothing. this happens with kscd and with cdp. It also happens when i try to play the CD with XMMS/aRts plugin, the setup that works for mp3s/oggs. the CD Players show the trackbar moving through the song but the VU meter does not show any 'sound' showing up at al (however the first thing i learnt about those meters in college is that VU stands for 'virtually useless').
Finally, when running sndconfig, all is well until i get to the 'play test sound' stage, whereupon sndconfig's nice blue screens dissapear and leave me hanging one line below a prompt like this:
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and i have to ctrl-C out of it, test sound unplayed. one time i remember doing this four or five times, and the test sounds mysteriously played when i shut down the computer. Regrettably i did not note which services et c were being shut down at the time this happened.

Now can anybody help me in basically getting it all to work. games all playing sound, GAIM playing sound, CDs playing, mp3s playing, if possible i'd like to listen to CDs/mp3s or whatever and have GAIM be able to interrupt me to let me know somebody has messaged me.

Thanks in advance and so on. i did find this:
http://www.redhat.com/mailing-lists/sound-list/msg04190.html
which is a guy with a similar but *not* identical problem, however no solutions to that guy's problem seem to come up. i would search more (and probably will) but you know i have been a bit under the weather recently and can't keep my stamina up for long, so i thought i'd ask here first.

Calum:
thanks so much.

does nobody have ANYTHING TO SAY????????

well since you all give a shit so much, i was just going to say that i can happily rip a CD to oggs using grip and then play it back using xmms, even though i cannot play the actual CD itself.

I suppose you're really interested to know that.

Maybe it's time to move on to a better forum for any technical type problems. this one seems like it's turning into more of a purely handbag fighting forum.

voidmain:
Try this:

http://voidmain.kicks-ass.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=24&highlight=

shuiend:
hey Calum have you tried grip for playing your cd's? That is the only thing that will play them for me.

choasforages:
if arts is running and esd is not, arts is probably hoging the soundcard and esd can't run.

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