On Thu 11 Sep 2003 at 23:38:37, Frank Sorenson said: > 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.
A lot of modern systems don't bother to include this cable to hook the analog (or digital) audio from the CDROM to the sound card. Instead, they handle CD playback basically by ripping the audio data from the CD and piping it straight to the sound card's digital out (this makes cool audio-based visualization plugins possible). IIRC, you can to use the "cdread" input plugin (which I think is even in portage under media-plugins) to play back CD's under XMMS. If this doesn't work, I'll check how I have my box set up when I get home. -- Soren Harward [EMAIL PROTECTED] ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
