CDs play in W98 but not FC2

[Gregory D Hough]

Chris Aitken wrote:
> I can't play CDs from fedora core 2. The CD drive sound cable is hooked 
> up to the SoundBlaster Live! card (AlsaMixer reports it as "Sound 
> Blaster Live! eMicro 28028") because I can play CDs when I boot to W98SE 
> (it's a dual-boot set up). All other sound is fine in FC2 - I play 
> .ogg's, and record/playback with Audacity. Occaisionally, I like ot just 
> popoa CD in the drive and play it (as it is now I have to rip songs off 
> the CDs just to play 'em). That slows things down when I have a guitar 
> student and we want to listen to a song right away.
> 
> There is an onboard soundcard as well. I don't use it though as the SBL! 
> is a better card (which I got to use with Audacity). Of course the CD 
> drive cannot be sending audio to the wrong card (since we know the cable 
> goes to the SBL! card since it works in W98SE). However, I did try 
> hooking the speakers up to the wrong card just to hear - of course 
> nothing comes out that way either...
> 
> Any ideas for me to chase?
> 
> Chris
> -- 
>
I'm not absolutely sure it was FC2, but there was one Fedora release 
which I had installed and the CDROM would not play CD's. Updating a few 
packages corrected it. Might have been udev or nscd and/or some others.

greg
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