On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 10:26:58AM -0400, Nathan Weston wrote: > I have an ATAPI CD-ROM drive (actually a Creative Dxr2 DVD drive), which I > can't get to play audio CDs under debian. > I am new to debian, but have a fair amount of experience wi/ Redhat. I am > currently migrating my system from redhat to debian, dual-booting so I can > keep the useable rh system around until I get everything working under debian. > > Playing of audio cds works fine under redhat (using kscd), but under debian > (unstable, with either the 2.2 idepci kernel or a custom 2.4.5 kernel), I get > no sound. > My drive is showing up as /dev/hdc. kscd tries to use /dev/cdrom, and when I > change that in the configuration, it crashes. grip will use /dev/hdc, and > gets a track listing, but when it plays there is no sound. > > Under redhat my drive showed up as /dev/cdrom. I'm not sure if this is > significant. > > Since I don't own a cd player, I can't switch over to debian until I get this > working. Any suggestions? > > TIA, > Nathan > > G'day Nathan,
Are you using ALSA sound drivers ? I can't get my CD to play at all under alsa drivers, but it work perfectly with kernel driver ( I've no idea why ) Cheers Joel