Re: Realy Queer Sound Problem - Reposted
--- "Thomas H. George" <xyz@spininternet.com> wrote:
> I have reposted this message as the original did not appear in list
> after 18 hours.
Sure it did. Patience _is_ a virtue, you know.
> the exception is when a music cd is played from /dev/cdrom (link to
> hdc). Then there is no sound. The programs run and shows that they are
> reading the cd but there is no sound.
The only thing I can suggest is that your CDROM drive on /dev/hdc doesn't
have an audio cable running from the CD to the audio card. Most CD
players (especially in windows) will perform Digitial Audio Extraction as
an alternative method. Certainly, 'xmms' can be told to do say, as can
the console-based cdplayer 'lazy'.
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