Playing Audio CDs

[Deven Phillips]

Rodney,

	This could make perfect sense if you are using KDE. KDE uses a sound
server (aRtsd) which ties up the dsp device. Normally, if you run XMMS,
KDE starts it inside of a program called 'soundwrapper'. If you have
upgraded parts of KDE, the kernel, or XMMS; you may have inadvertantly
broken or removed soundwrapper from being run, or the sound server from
being run. If this is the case, then sound for XMMS could be broken. The
acid test is to log out of KDE and into
GNOME/WindowMaker/Enlightenment/etc.. and try it there.

Hope this helps

Deven Phillips, CISSP
Network Architect
Viata Online, Inc.

Rodney Kanno wrote:
> 
> yup, I have that calbe connected because it works fine in windows and the
> last time i used xmms to play cds (about a week) ago, it worked fine. Could
> it be that some of the updates i did (can't remember exactly what) messed it
> up somehow?
> 
> Thanks,
> Rodney
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Warren Togami" <warren at togami.com>
> To: "Linux & Unix Advocates & Users" <luau at maile.hi.net>
> Sent: Friday, August 17, 2001 8:11 AM
> Subject: [luau] Re: Playing Audio CDs
> 
> > Does it work on Windows on the same machine?  This sounds like a common
> > problem where a tiny four prong analog cable is not connected between the
> > CD-ROM and the sound device.  Take a look at the back of the CD-ROM.  The
> > analog cable should be plugged in left of the IDE or SCSI ribbon cable,
> and
> > it should go to a header somewhere on the sound card or integrated
> > motherboard labelled "CD-IN".  Then check mixer settings to be sure the
> > volume levels and mute are set properly.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Rodney Kanno" <pepe65 at hawaii.rr.com>
> > To: "Linux & Unix Advocates & Users" <luau at list.luau.hi.net>
> > Sent: Friday, August 17, 2001 7:51 AM
> > Subject: [luau] Playing Audio CDs
> >
> >
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > I am having trouble listening to audio cd's in Linux. I am running Linux
> > > Mandrake 8.0 and I like to use Xmms to play my music files. I can listen
> > to
> > > mp3's just fine, but when I try to listen to an audio cd, I get no
> sound.
> > > Xmms sees the cd and loads all the tracks and even gets the track info
> > from
> > > CDDB, and it plays the cd, but no sound come out. I tried playing
> another
> > cd
> > > using kscd and the same thing happens. Any ideas on how I can fix this?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Rodney
> > >
> >
> >
> >
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