Do you have a cable connecting the back of the cdrom to your soundcard? Can you hear the cd if you plug headphones/speakers into the headphone jack on the front of the cdrom?
Joseph de los Santos wrote: > I have sound working ( I can hear sound through sound events of gnome) and > my soundcard is listed in procinfo. my problem is trying to play cdrom. I > have xfreecd and have read access to the cdrom via chmod a+r /dev/cdrom but > when I try to play cds I can't hear anything. I can see it playing but there > is no sound. I thought that I had to mount it first but it wont let me mount > a cd disc. it gives error that it is an incompatible medium so I thought > that might be the problem. then I tried to mount an ordinary cd (the debian > cd) and it mounted perfectly so I assume this was'nt the problem.