playing audio CDs on FC4

[John Wendel]

Gerhard Magnus wrote:
>>	I'm running FC4 with a KDE desktop on a new Pentium 4 dual
>>booting with Windows XP.  Under Windows I can play and rip CDs on the
>>DVD drive using Windows Media Player without anything unusual happening.
>>(I mention this only to eliminate the obvious hardware issues.)
>>	With FC4 the system recognizes my soundcard:
>>	Vendor: Intel
>>	Model: Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/RW/FRW (ICH6 Family) High
>>Definition Audio Controller
>>	Module: snd-hda-intel
>>and plays the usual test tune.
>>	The mixer KMix shows all the outputs turned on with 75% volume
>>(except for PCM which doesn't seem to have a mute function.)
>>	The CD players xmms and KsCD both appear to be playing from the
>>drive but I can't get any sound.
> 
> 
> On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 08:55 +1000, Craig Preston wrote:
> 
>>Have you plugged the cd drive into the input on the sound card. Windows
>>can play music without this cable, but I'm not sure if Linux can. 
> 
> 
> OK, I popped the case.  There's no soundcard in the PCA slots so it must
> be on the motherboard somewhere....  I don't have a clue where to
> connect that CD cable.  My dealer said this machine used a newer
> architecture but it can't be that new!  Are there any linux settings or
> linux cd-playing software that get around this problem?  
> 

XMMS can play a CD using the digital interface.

The menu selection is well hidden.

XMMS -> options -> preferences -> input plugins -> cd audio player -> 
configure -> digital audio extraction.

KSCD also has a digital option, but it doesn't work for me.

Regards,

John