John Keniry wrote: > 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.
Interesting. You did make me open my computer to have a look, as I wasn't that sure myself ;-) The cable is connected though. Elimar Riesebieter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> suggested: > Make sure you're member of groups audio and cdrom. OK, I added these to my personal account in /etc/group. Still, I was trying cd-playing as root all the time (not very good, I know), but then I suppose group membership should not be an issue. If it works with root and not for J. Doe User, then I knew its a permissions problem ... Seems not to be that alone. Although, as non-root user I _do_ get "permission denied" for /dev/hdd (which is my CDROM). How can I fix that? I am in the cdrom group, which owners ought to have /dev/hdd (/dev/cdrom is a symlink to it)? Stephen Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > Make sure you're member of groups audio and cdrom. > I believe he is, as he can hear some sounds, and can cat to /dev/dsp. > It sounds like your mixer settings are too low, if everything is really > quiet. Try `apt-cache search mixer` to see a list of available mixers, > so you can raise and lower volume settings. I use aumixer, but YMMV. I wasn't, but I was root then (see above). I actually installed aumixer already. Could there be a conflict with another mixer around (from the base install)? I'm still clueless. Could be that I mucked up my devices during the install (I had to do MAKEDEV once). And I don't understand the logic behind the audio and cdrom groups. Can't I just put option user in fstab for /cdrom? And what is audio group for? Thanks for your tips so far, Christian : Thanks Christian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
