No sound from audio cd's

[James Bonnet]

Gerry Doris wrote:

>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.
>
>  
>
Real basic, but.. are you sure that the cable from the soundcard to the 
CDplayer is connected?

-j