On Sun, 14 May 2006, Walter Dnes wrote:
> On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 02:20:56PM +0200, Matthias Bethke wrote > > Hi Walter, > > on Tuesday, 2006-05-09 at 20:34:29, you wrote: > > > My idea of "the right application" doesn't install 75% of KDE or > > > GNOME... > > > > Good point! :) What about media-sound/cdplay? Doesn't seem to have any > > dependencies at all. > > I tried that too. It appears to "play" the CD, but no sound. It does > output through the CDROM's headphone jack on my old Dell. I don't > really want to, but I may have to open up the PC and muck around with > the connection. > > cdplay is sending output through the analog or digital line on the cdrom drive, "to the soundcard". If there is not a line plugged into the sound card, then you will not hear sound. Many cd playing applications now will read the cd itself rather than just sending the play command to the drive. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
