No sound from audio cd's

[Gerry Doris]

On Sat, 2003-02-01 at 09:20, Matthew Carpenter wrote:
> Do you have the cable hooked up from the CD Drive to your sound card?
> 
> 
> On Wed, 29 Jan 2003 11:47:08 -0500 (EST)
> Gerry Doris <gerry at dorfam.ca> 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.
> > 
> > -- 
> > Gerry

This has been fixed.  The problem turned out to be the default gnome
mixer in RH 8.0.  As soon as that was activated it stopped all sound
from the cdrom.

I tried kmix and aumix.  Both of those indicated that audio from the
cdrom had been turned off.  Either would turn it back on.  However,
going to the gnome menu, selecting Sound & Video, then Volume Control
would immediately kill the audio.

Gerry