On Thu, 11 Sep 2003, Hyrum Wright said:
> Another question.  I'm running Gentoo with all the latest packages.  The
> CD player doesn't seem to work just right.  When I put a CD in, the
> default CD player starts, and says that it is playing, but no music
> comes out of the system speakers.  I know that the sound system works,
> because I can play MP3s from XMMS just fine.  I've verified that the
> CD-ROM is actually reading, because the earphone jack on the front of
> the drive works.  The sound is just getting lost somewhere between the
> drive and my speakers.  Am I missing something?  Is there a special
> setting that needs to get set?

When you're playing a CD, the sound is transferred directly to the sound 
card, rather than through the IDE bus to the processor.  You might want to 
check to see if the small 4-wire connector between the drive and your 
sound card is loose or missing.

Frank
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Frank Sorenson - KD7TZK
CSR Computer Science Department
Brigham Young University
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