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Re: No Sound from CD but DVD/MP3 sound is fine



On Sat, May 20, 2006 at 01:04:46PM -0400, B Thomas <thomas.1037@osu.edu> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> goobox does indeed work very well. I am a bit surprised though. The
> sound card Intel High Definition Audio (ICH7 chipset) is an "onboard"
> sound card. So I don't see why there should be this issue of "cabling".
> Should I talk to Dell support ? I would like to avoid it because the
> first thing I did after I got the laptop was to delete WindowsXP. And
> I am pretty sure the first thing they will tell me when I report my
> problem is that they don't support linux (essentially blaming the
> problem on linux).

There's nothing you can do, a lot of laptops are made this way.
As for the "onboard" thing, that doesn't change anything about the
cabling requirement.

Mike



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