i would've suggested this to, but he did say that CD's played under windows. wouldn't windows need a cable from the CD player to the sound card too? pete On Fri 15 Dec 00, 2:36 PM, Chris Gray said... > >>>>> Andrew Perrin writes: > > ap> Okay, I know this is a boring issue, but I've now finally got > ap> sound working okay (as evidenced by the fact that I can play > ap> .wav files at will), but I still can't play cds. The cd's > ap> spin, and if I plug headphones into the jack in the CD-ROM > ap> drive I hear the music, so I know the player is working fine. > ap> It also works fine under That Other Operating System Whose > ap> Name We Shall Not Speak, so I know the connections are okay. > > ap> I've used a mixer to bring up the volume on the CD input, and > ap> I can hear .wav files played so I know sound is working. But > ap> there's no output from the sound card when playing audio cd's. > > ap> I'm not using ALSA at this point - just soundcore and > ap> sonicvibes (the driver for my cound card). > > ap> Any ideas? > > There usually needs to be a connection between the CD-ROM and the > sound card for CD playing to work. The kernel sound driver isn't a > part of the whole equation. > > So if there is a wire coming from the back of your CD-ROM that isn't > plugged in anywhere, try plugging it into your soundcard. > Unfortunately I can't be more specific because I am not able to see > your whole setup. > > -- > Chris > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-request@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > -- Just upgraded to Woody? Don't have permission to run X? linux In Xwrapper.config, change allowed_users from root to console. - ------------------------------------------------------------------ ._. To err is human, to forgive is divine. p@belial.ucdavis.edu /v\ To oink is porcine, to meow is feline. http://www.dirac.org/p // \\ ------------------------------------------------------------------ ^^ ^^ GPG Fingerprint: B9F1 6CF3 47C4 7CD8 D33E 70A9 A3B9 1945 67EA 951D rules
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