From: "Hyrum Wright" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 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?
There's two ways to play music off of a CD. 1) Have a program *read* the info, process it, and play it through your sound card. 2) Have the CD-ROM drive process the audio cd (you can have a program control this, but it doesn't process the sound) and output through the audio jack on the back of the CD-ROM drive (just like the headphone jack on the front). To hear this sound out of your speakers, you need a separate connection from the back of your CD-ROM drive directly to your sound card. It seems like option 2 is what you are having a problem with because if you were using option 1, you wouldn't hear any sound out of the headphone jack in the front of the CD-ROM drive. Crack the case and see if you have that cable running from your cd-drive to your sound card. If you don't have one at all, make note of the connection types on both the drive and the card (hopefully your soundcard has a connection for this) and ask a friend who works on computers for an exta cable. Matt W. ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
