On Wednesday 25 June 2008, Yoav Luft wrote: > Hi, > I posted a similar e-mail a couple of weeks ago and got no > response. I wish not to spam the mailing list, only for maybe a > better luck this time. My CD ROM drive had stopped playing audio > CD's. It still works fine, data CD's work alright and various > programs manage to gather useful information about the audio CD's > tracks, but I hear nothing. I checked all controls in alsamixer to > be unmuted and at reasonable volume, but it's not it. I can't rip > the CD's neither. Any ideas what might be wrong?
This looks like the two-wire cable between the CD ROM and your soundcard is missing or loose. I'd check this first. If this is a laptop, it might well be that the connection between the two subsystems was left out intentionally by the manufacturer to save a couple of cents. Some do that. :-( Uwe -- Ignorance killed the cat, sir, curiosity was framed! -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
