On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, you wrote:
> I can't seem to get my CD player to play music. I
> know that my sound card works because I can hear
> the sample sounds when I configued by AWE32 sound card with
> sndconfig, but when I slip in a CD and try to use
> the CD Player in KDE, I can't get any sound. The
> Player recognizes the CD and shows the corrent times
> for songs, but still no sound. I have tried the obvious -
> like cranking on the volume controls on the Player
> and the Sound Mixer, and still silence. Any and
> all help would be appreciate. I don't like singing
> to myself.
>
Does audio otherwise work on your system within KDE? If not,
you might want to check the permissions on /dev/audio and
/dev/dsp. It may be that one or the other is set to
root-only permissions, which could cause the problem you're
experiencing.
John
