On 08-Feb-99 Richard Hall wrote: > I just installed workman so that I can listen to tunes, but it ain't > working. Sound works, ie, I can do 'cat file.au > /dev/audio' and hear > sound. Also, workman thinks that it is playing the CD. I can watch the > time elapse, and it knows how many tracks are on the disk. The only > problem is that nothing is coming out of the speakers. I can hear music > by plugging headphones into the CD drive. > > So which audio device is workman using? I figure that I just need to > change permissions somewhere, but I'm not sure where. >
Or to ask a dumb question -- does CD audio work in some other app or OS? For the Cd to send sound to the computer, a cable running from the cdrom drive to the sound card must exist and be connected to the right plug on the sound card.