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 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Frank Sorenson - KD7TZK CSR Computer Science Department Brigham Young University [EMAIL PROTECTED] ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
