My apologies to both of you and to the list for this... I had removed my CD-ROM earlier for use in installing linux on another box, and when I reinstalled it I didn't plug in the cable. I'll just slink back into my cave now....
Andy ------------------------------------------------------------------ Andrew J Perrin - Ph.D. Candidate, UC Berkeley, Dept. of Sociology 216 Oxford Hills Drive | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Chapel Hill NC 27514 USA | [EMAIL PROTECTED] (919) 929-3292 | http://demog.berkeley.edu/~aperrin On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > i would've suggested this to, but he did say that CD's played under windows. > > wouldn't windows need a cable from the CD player to the sound card too? > > pete > > On Fri 15 Dec 00, 2:36 PM, Chris Gray said... > > >>>>> Andrew Perrin writes: > > > > ap> Okay, I know this is a boring issue, but I've now finally got > > ap> sound working okay (as evidenced by the fact that I can play > > ap> .wav files at will), but I still can't play cds. The cd's > > ap> spin, and if I plug headphones into the jack in the CD-ROM > > ap> drive I hear the music, so I know the player is working fine. > > ap> It also works fine under That Other Operating System Whose > > ap> Name We Shall Not Speak, so I know the connections are okay. > > > > ap> I've used a mixer to bring up the volume on the CD input, and > > ap> I can hear .wav files played so I know sound is working. But > > ap> there's no output from the sound card when playing audio cd's. > > > > ap> I'm not using ALSA at this point - just soundcore and > > ap> sonicvibes (the driver for my cound card). > > > > ap> Any ideas? > > > > There usually needs to be a connection between the CD-ROM and the > > sound card for CD playing to work. The kernel sound driver isn't a > > part of the whole equation. > > > > So if there is a wire coming from the back of your CD-ROM that isn't > > plugged in anywhere, try plugging it into your soundcard. > > Unfortunately I can't be more specific because I am not able to see > > your whole setup. > > > > -- > > Chris > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -- > Just upgraded to Woody? Don't have permission to run X? linux > In Xwrapper.config, change allowed_users from root to console. - > ------------------------------------------------------------------ ._. > To err is human, to forgive is divine. [EMAIL PROTECTED] /v\ > To oink is porcine, to meow is feline. http://www.dirac.org/p // \\ > ------------------------------------------------------------------ ^^ ^^ > GPG Fingerprint: B9F1 6CF3 47C4 7CD8 D33E 70A9 A3B9 1945 67EA 951D rules >
