Mark, I had this problem once with CD's. See if you have a
program on your system called "xmixer" -- it is a volume
control app. It will show you whether or not the CD sound
is muted. When I first got sound in Linux I had that
problem.
Phil
On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Mark Weaver wrote:
>Hugo,
>
>I don't think the problem is with your sound card. I have the same
>trouble with Gnome in my installation. Some things work and others
>don't. Gnome sounds is one of them. I know that the sound works because
>I configured the sound easily enough over the weekend using sndconfig.
>When Netscape encounters something with a sound file embedded on it the
>sound plays fine. IN fact, the sound is much better then than it ever
>was in Windows.
>
>I just can't seem to figure out why I can't play music CD's in Linux,
>unless Linux requires a physical connection between the CDROM and the
>sound card.
>
