Re: No Sound from CD but DVD/MP3 sound is fine
On Sun, 21 May 2006 09:00:46 +0200
Jan Schledermann <spamtrap@schledermann.org> wrote:
> > Its not linux related but hardware related. Your CDrom Audio cable
> > is not connected to the soundcard's CD Audio slot. Most likely, to
> > save space, Laptops doesnt have CD audio slot's in their
> > soundcards. On windows it'll work because windows includes 'Digital
> > Audio Extraction' for CD/DVD roms. A similar driver for linux will
> > do the trick.
> >
> > Ace.
>
> As far as I remember the libcdaudio.so library/plugin also supports
> Digital Audio Extraction (if your drive supports DAE, that is).
> Using xmms/libaudiocd.so it should be possible to play CD's without
> the audio cable.
> I think that I actually did that once, but I can't verify this, as
> all my current systems are fitted with the audio cable.
>
> Jan
I have a similar situation where most applications produce no audio when I try to play a CD on my Thinkpad a21m, presumably for the same "no audio cable" reason. gxine, however, works, and I don't remember having to explicitly install any extras, it "just worked".
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