There's an audio cable that goes directly from a jack on the back of your CD drive to a connector on the soundcard inside the computer. Open your computer's case; If you don't have this audio cable connected, you won't be able to listen to audio CDs.
Chair, Anthony paolo brusasco wrote: > > I cannot hear cds neither with kscd nor with grip. > I read mails in last days but couldn't find an answer; I'm afraid there > is a little stupid simple thing to do but I tried hard and can't find. I > hope someone can help, thank you for reading this. BYE. > I am trying to listen from an ide 16xdvd-cd on /dev/hda (there is also a > cdrw on /dev/hdd (system set it to /dev/scd0 but to start xcdroast I had > to make changes, this is another long boring story). > > 1) I can see and access normal data from /dev/hda. > 2) I can hear system sounds and .wav files > 3) arts volume control is set to max. > 4) mixer channels are all not muted (green light on) and volumes set to > max (no way to hear sounds without starting mixer). > 5) kscd is configured to device /dev/hda by editing > /home/user/.kde/share/config/kscdrc (no way to change device from inside > kscd, it always ends with error 11 sigsegv); /dev/cdrom doesn't exist on > my sistem;there is /dev/cdroms but kscd set to this doesn' even see the cd. > 6) /dev/hda is unmounted > 7) entry in /etc/fstab is: > /dev/hda /mnt/cdrom auto user, > iocharset=iso8859-15,umask=0,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0 > > I can't understand what does it mean what a fellow wrote some days ago, > that one should look if audio cable is connected from cd to soundcard-I > don't have audio cables or jacks and audio cds work under > windows-i-am-trying-to-leave-but-it-looks-hard. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Name: message.footer > message.footer Type: Plain Text (text/plain) > Encoding: 8bit
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