No sound from audio cd's

[Gerry Doris]

I've been knocking my head against the screen for the last couple of days.  
I can't play audio cd's no matter what I do.

I can burn audio cd's successfully.  I can play both wav and mp3 files 
from disk.  However, when I try and play directly from cd everything looks 
ok but there isn't any sound (also no error messages).

I've tried the gnome default cdplayer, xmms, kscd.  They all perform 
exactly the same.  They read the tracks and start playing but not a single 
sound comes through.

This is on a RH 8.0 system.

-- 
Gerry

"The lyfe so short, the craft so long to learne"  Chaucer