Re: no cd-sound but es1370 works

[John Keniry <john@ice-nine.co.uk>]

On Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 03:28:09PM +0100, Christian Mascher wrote:

> # cdcd -d /dev/hdd (which is my CD-ROM-drive)
> It does everything expected, ejects, shows me the tracks, even
> starts playing (according to led) -- but I can't hear anything. 
> 
> I think the problem is not the drive and not the cd (can listen to it
> under win98) but somewhere in the sound-system.

Some versions of Windows play the CD by reading the data through the IDE
channel, rather than using the soundcard->CDrom cable. I don't know
whether this is true of Win98 but you could check the cable is
connected.

-- 
John Keniry