I'm trying to get sound working on my Desknote A928.  cdcd plays cds,
but the volume is not great through the headphone jack.  The speakers
on the A928 are hardly putting out sound while playing cds (if you put
your head up to it...).

Output of dmesg is:

Linux version 2.4.18-bf2.4 (root@zombie) (gcc version 2.95.4 20011002
(Debian prerelease)) #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000000ec000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000000dff0000 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 000000000dff0000 - 000000000dff8000 (ACPI data)
 BIOS-e820: 000000000dff8000 - 000000000e000000 (ACPI NVS)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000ffee0000 - 00000000fff0ffff (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000fffc0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
On node 0 totalpages: 57328
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 53232 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
No local APIC present or hardware disabled
Kernel command line: auto BOOT_IMAGE=Linux ro root=301 boot_verbose=1
video=vga16:off
Initializing CPU#0
Detected 1693.157 MHz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 3381.65 BogoMIPS
Memory: 222380k/229312k available (1783k kernel code, 6544k reserved,
549k data, 280k init, 0k highmem)
Dentry-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
Buffer-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
CPU: Before vendor init, caps: 3febf9ff 00000000 00000000, vendor = 0
CPU: L1 I cache: 12K, L1 D cache: 8K
CPU: After vendor init, caps: 3febf9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU:     After generic, caps: 3febf9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU:             Common caps: 3febf9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 1.70GHz stepping 03
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
Checking for popad bug... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfdb01, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: Using IRQ router SIS [1039/0008] at 00:02.0
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
Starting kswapd
VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized
Journalled Block Device driver loaded
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ
SERIAL_PCI enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
Real Time Clock Driver v1.10e
block: 128 slots per queue, batch=32
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with
idebus=xx
SIS5513: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 15
SIS5513: chipset revision 208
SIS5513: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
SiS650
    ide0: BM-DMA at 0xff00-0xff07, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
    ide1: BM-DMA at 0xff08-0xff0f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
hda: IC25N015ATDA04-0, ATA DISK drive
hdc: QSI DVD-ROM SDR-081, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: 29498112 sectors (15103 MB) w/347KiB Cache, CHS=1836/255/63,
UDMA(33)
hdc: ATAPI 24X DVD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
ide-floppy driver 0.97.sv
Partition check:
 hda: hda1 hda2
floppy0: no floppy controllers found
Loading I2O Core - (c) Copyright 1999 Red Hat Software
I2O configuration manager v 0.04.
  (C) Copyright 1999 Red Hat Software
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
Compaq CISS Driver (v 2.4.5)
sis900.c: v1.08.02 11/30/2001
PCI: Assigned IRQ 5 for device 00:03.0
eth0: Realtek RTL8201 PHY transceiver found at address 1.
eth0: Using transceiver found at address 1 as default
eth0: SiS 900 PCI Fast Ethernet at 0xd400, IRQ 5, 00:50:eb:04:e7:9a.
HDLC support module revision 1.02 for Linux 2.4
Cronyx Ltd, Synchronous PPP and CISCO HDLC (c) 1994
Linux port (c) 1998 Building Number Three Ltd & Jan "Yenya" Kasprzak.
ide-floppy driver 0.97.sv
Promise Fasttrak(tm) Softwareraid driver 0.03beta: No raid array found
Highpoint HPT370 Softwareraid driver for linux version 0.01
No raid array found
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
Red Hat/Adaptec aacraid driver, Apr 14 2002
DC390: 0 adapters found
3ware Storage Controller device driver for Linux v1.02.00.016.
3w-xxxx: No cards with valid units found.
request_module[scsi_hostadapter]: Root fs not mounted
request_module[scsi_hostadapter]: Root fs not mounted
i2o_scsi.c: Version 0.0.1
  chain_pool: 0 bytes @ cdfefca0
  (512 byte buffers X 4 can_queue X 0 i2o controllers)
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
IP: routing cache hash table of 2048 buckets, 16Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 16384)
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
EXT3-fs: INFO: recovery required on readonly filesystem.
EXT3-fs: write access will be enabled during recovery.
kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: recovery complete.
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 280k freed
Adding Swap: 248996k swap-space (priority -1)
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.17, 10 Jan 2002 on ide0(3,1), internal journal
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 10:29:43 Apr 14 2002
usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:08.1
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:05.0
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xc800, IRQ 11
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:08.0
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xc400, IRQ 10
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
usb.c: registered new driver keyboard
usbkbd.c: :USB HID Boot Protocol keyboard driver
Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 176M
agpgart: Detected SiS 650 chipset
agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xe0000000
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
Intel 810 + AC97 Audio, version 0.21, 10:28:09 Apr 14 2002
SiS pirq: advanced IDE/ACPI/DAQ mapping not yet implemented
advanced SiS pirq mapping not yet implemented
i810: SiS 7012 found at IO 0xd800 and 0xdc00, IRQ 10
i810_audio: Audio Controller supports 6 channels.
ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: 0x5745:0x4302 (Unknown)
i810_audio: AC'97 codec 0 Unable to map surround DAC's (or DAC's not
present), total channels = 2
eth0: Media Link On 100mbps half-duplex 
VFS: Disk change detected on device ide1(22,0)
hdc: packet command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error
}
hdc: packet command error: error=0x54
ATAPI device hdc:
  Error: Illegal request -- (Sense key=0x05)
  Invalid field in command packet -- (asc=0x24, ascq=0x00)
  The failed "Start/Stop Unit" packet command was: 
  "1b 00 00 00 03 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 "
VFS: Disk change detected on device ide1(22,0)
VFS: Disk change detected on device ide1(22,0)
VFS: Disk change detected on device ide1(22,0)
VFS: Disk change detected on device ide1(22,0)


If you need other output, just ask.

For the DVD, I've installed DVDNAV into xine, and all apropriate dvd
libs are installed, but xine still can't play cds or dvds.  The dvd
drive is symlinked to /cdrom