Jesús Guerrero wrote: > On Sun, 22 Jul 2007 13:11:18 -0400 > Colleen Beamer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> I'm not thinking that the problem might be the DVD-RW drive - it's a >> Ricoh and the specific problem that I was having was not being able to >> hear audio CD's when using kscd. I googled and found a blog by someone >> who had an Inspiron 9300 with a Ricoh drive. All that really was said >> was that DMA was not enabled my default and to add a certain line to the >> kernel header file (instructions were more explicit than this) and then >> recompile the kernel. >> > > I would first the obvious: your laptop might not have an audio cable > attached to the audio output of your drive, or the drive might not have > such output at all, or maybe your mother board has not an audiocd/aux > audio input port. Try any audio program that can do digital audio > extraction. Xmms can do that, I can't think of any other, maybe kscd > has it, but you might need to enable it manually on its config. I don't > really know. > > If that works, we found the problem. >
Well, in response to this, I ripped a track from a CD using kaudiocreator. The track ripped, encoded and played fine from the hard drive. I'm sure there isn't a problem with the audio cable not being connected. The laptop is a Dell and it is pretested before leaving the factory. The thing is, the laptop came with Windows Vista on it. Windows Vista got booted the first time that I turned the laptop on to the point where I got the setup screen that you get the first time. This was only because I wasn't quick enough hitting the F2 button to get into the BIOS. I never set Vista up, I installed Gentoo and the laptop does not dual boot. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
