CDs play in W98 but not FC2

[Brandon Sandrowicz]

On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 09:11:36AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 05:22:34PM -0400, 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?
> 
> By default win98 uses digital audio extraction to play CDs, so it
> doesn't even use the audio cable from the cdrom.  Linux tends to play
> CDs the way they were meant to be played using the audio cable.
> 
> If it doesn't work, then most likely you have the cd input muted in the
> mixer for your sound card, or potentially your user doesn't even have
> permission to access the cdrom drive to give it commands to play (on
> debian a user has to be in the cdrom group to play a cd, just as they
> have to be in the audio group to play sound and access the mixer).
> 
> So check your mixer settings and make sure the volume is turned up on
> the cd input.
> 
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> Len Sorensen
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I think that maybe the CD audio cable is not hooked up.  He says that he knows
it is hooked up because "I can play CDs when I boot into W98SE," but if
Windows 98 uses digital audio extraction, then he may not even have the audio
cable hooked up.

Brandon Sandrowicz

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