On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 07:32:02 -0800, Mark Knecht <markknecht@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 10:23:42 -0500, Charles E Taylor IV > <tomalek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 07:11:40 -0800 > > Mark Knecht <markknecht@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > I've found that a udev update through up2date fixed many of the > > > problems. Now the CD plays, but still no audio. I've turned up every > > > option in alsamixer. I enabled the Gnome sound server on start up and > > > I'm getting system sounds, but no audio from the CD. > > > > If this is a new machine (one that you haven't used to play CDs under > > Linux before), do you actually have an audio cable going from your CD > > drive to your sound card? I had that trouble with a machine I built from > > parts a while back. > > > > Good question and one I had wondered about myself. I don't know. It's > an eMachines box that had Windows XP on it but I never booted XP. I > just assumed it had a cable if that was required. Typically (on my > machines - this one is my wife's first Linux box) I use alsaplayer > which plays digitally and I do not have the audio cable. I guess > gnome-cd doesn't do digital playback? > > I'll check the cable, and I'll check shich drive (DVD or CD) has the > cable. Could be either I suppose. > > thanks for the feedback. > > - Mark > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > The default cdplayer application doesn't use the analog cable anymore. It reads the data directly from the cdplayer over the ide bus. Unfortunately, I have found some problems with certain cdrom drives, using this method. In particular the burners that came with Dell Dimension's had this problem. The tell tale sign is a bunch of drive seek errors in dmesg. The easiest solution I found to fix this problem was to switch to using goobox as my cdrom player. http://gnomefiles.org/app.php?soft_id=531 (sorry no rpms). In general I find this a much nicer player. -Jon
