Dave,
What soundcard? Do other sounds work? (I missed the first post, so my
apologies if you already gave us this info).
If you happen to have a SoundBlaster 64/Ensoniq AudioPCI there are
several bugs in the kernel sound driver. First, the CD channel needs to
be set to be a recording source in order for CD sound to work. Second,
some mixer programs (including gmix and kmix) trigger a bug in which the
Playback/Recording source settings get corrupted, and the CD channel
gets switched into playback mode every time you start the mixer. To work
around the problem in gmix, make sure the "Restore mixer settings on
startup" option in preferences is unchecked. There's no workaround that
I can find for kmix. The command line tool aumix does not exhibit this
problem.
Furthermore, the commercial OSS driver for this sound card does not
exhibit these bugs. I haven't tried ALSA, so I don't know how well it
works.
Andrew
David Warnock wrote:
>
> Magnus,
>
> > to play CDs trougth the soundcard, you must have a cable attached from the
> > CD to the soundcard.. if you have it should work just fine..
>
> it is attached (Windows 98 plays CD's fine).
>
> Dave
