playing audio CDs on FC4

gary garys at mtaonline.net
Wed Nov 30 04:09:01 UTC 2005


On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 13:23 +1000, Craig Preston wrote:
> If the sound card is an onboard one, the motherboard will have the plug
> on it somewhere. Time to find the manual :) 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com
> [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Gerhard Magnus
> Sent: Wednesday, 30 November 2005 12:39 PM
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases
> Subject: RE: playing audio CDs on FC4
> 
> 
> > 	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?  
> 
 A more simple solution may be, just plug your speaker(s) into your
digital output. (probably a black plugin -not green. At some point 
after installing fc4, my analog output stopped functioning yet when I
use a different os I have to change the plug back to analog.  --gary





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