On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 08:05 -0800, Gerhard Magnus wrote: > I'm still having problems playing audio CDs with a KDE desktop running > on a Pentium 4. The system recognizes my "soundcard" which is on the > motherboard rather than in a slot. What type of card. Some aren't compatible. ISA cards aren't always too brilliant. > (2) I'm getting noise that sounds like static when I play a CD. The > problem is not the speakers since I get the same interference when I > plug in headphones instead. Also, this problem does not occur when I > boot Windows XP on the same machine and play the same CD using Windows > Media Player or iTunes. The static (which sounds like something on a > cheap radio) stops during gaps between songs so I've assumed it has > something to do with the volume settings. If it didn't work on either, I'd have said a bad sound card. But perhaps it's drivers that aren't very good. There's also a chance that your CD-ROM and it aren't that compatible, if other things play sound fine. -- Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
