No sound from audio cd's

[Net Llama!]

On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, 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.

Are you running these apps from the command line?

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