David Merriman wrote:
Hi there,
I've just installed Mandrake 9.1 (complete linux newbie), and everything appears to be working now, except I can't play any music CD's. I've got a SoundBlaster Live! card, and Midiland 4.1 speakers. I (finally) found out how to get MP3's to play via Xmms, and fiddling with the volume settings in AuMix, but I can't hear anything when I play music CD's. It's not critical, as I don't actually do this very often anyway, but it would be nice to know how for next time.
There could be several reasons...does the drive spin up when you click play? Did it all work under Windows? Things you might want to check include whether there physically is a cable for audio from the CD-drive to the soundcard. If thats plugged into a motherboard CD-audio riser and not the Live! card CD-audio riser you may want to re-route the audio cable to the active soundcard. Aumix also has separate volume and mute for each audio source...
Failing all of that I haven't been much use really...but you'd expect that if you remember the days working in the lab at Ashley! ;-)
Kind regards,
Chris Wilkinson, Christchurch. Mandrake 9.1 abuser, and generally silly person.
