>> when I start playing a cd with grip, nothing happens. I unmuted all >> channels with alsamixer and growed up volume, but no sound is to >> hear. Is it possible to play cds with grip or is a cable from cdrom >> device to sound card missing? > > The cable is missing. I did not know that grip was able to play > CD. With xmms, you need the plugin xmms-cdread which reads the CD > digitally.
You can also use this patch for gnome-cd if you have cdparanoia installed: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=129604 (use the second patch) hth, -- Colin Ne disez pas disez, mais disez dites