Well, son of a gun. That worked!
Is a CD audio cable for my drive/sound card (HP8100/SB128 PCI) the kind of
thing I can buy or make easily?
Thanks very much for your help.
M.
On Saturday 23 December 2000 17:41, you wrote:
> If you have another OS, can you plat music CDs in that?
>
> If you don't, try connecting your speakers into the headphone jack at the
> front of your CDROM drive rather than your soundcard. You might not have a
> CDaudio cable.
>
> Mike
>
> Michael O'Henly wrote:
> > Hi...
> >
> > I'm running Linux-Mandrake 7.2. My CD device is an HP8100 CDRW (supported
> > hardware). I have no trouble using this device as a CD-ROM drive or to
> > burn CDs, but I cannot play music CDs.
> >
> > When I launch the CD Player application, I can eject, select tracks,
> > etc., so I know that I'm able to address the drive. I have no trouble
> > with streaming audio or playing .wav files either, so I'm not suspecting
> > a problem with the sound card (SoundBlaster 128 PCI, Esoniq 1371 driver).
> >
> > I've done a Google search which tuned up LOTS of similar reports but no
> > solutions.
> >
> > Is this a recognized problem -- perhaps having to do with SCSI emulation
> > on an ATAPI/IDE CDRW?
> >
> > Any insights here would be most appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > M.
> >
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