You have connected the Digital I/O cable to the CD. Two wires right? While this works (you'll need to enable the mixer apps to turn it on, as it is off by default)... you really need to use an analog CD audio cable, as this is what most Linux apps expect. -JMS [EMAIL PROTECTED] |-----Original Message----- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:newbie-owner@linux- |mandrake.com] On Behalf Of Matt Harrison |Sent: Sunday, August 26, 2001 5:43 PM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Ton Strijbosch |Subject: Re: [newbie] No Sound for CD | |On Sunday 26 August 2001 01:15, Ton Strijbosch wrote: |> On Sunday 26 August 2001 06:35, Matthew Harrison wrote: |> > Hey Gang, |> > Slight problem. When I try to play a cd using CD Player, I get no |> > sound |> > |> > >from the cd even though it says its playing. But, I get sound from |KDE |> > |> > themes and whatnot. I have a SoundBlaster Live! Platinum 5.1 running |on |> > a 700 Celeron, 392 mb ram, a 20 gig HD running Win2k Pro, and a 15 gig |> > partitioned into a 10 gig from backup of the win2k part, and 5 gigs for |> > Linux, Mandrake 8.0 btw. Now the computer is a Blaster PC from |> > Tigerdirect.com incase anyone is familiar with that PC, and the DVD |> > Drive's audio cable is hooked into a digital port and I am thinking |> > myself that my problem lies there. Any help? |> > |> > Matt |> |> ---------------------------------------- |> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; name="message.footer" |> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit |> Content-Description: |> ---------------------------------------- |> Hi, |> |> Is the small cable from audio out of the DVD-player to the soundcard |> connected? For CD players this is needed to play audio CD's. Do audio |CD's |> play correctly under Win2K? |> |> Ton | |Yeah, the audio cable is a small grey cable hooked into the digital plugin |because of the creative motherboard having the SBL! integrated. As far as |hardware and windows go, I am am as good as a person can be, but I get |humbled by linux. It just seems odd that the sound would work when KDE |starts up, but not when a cd is being played. | |Matt | |_________________________________________________________ |Do You Yahoo!? |Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com |
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