playing cd's on an hp laptop?

[Gene Heskett]

David G. Miller wrote:
> Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net> wrote:
>> I've tried an audio cd in the drive a couple of times on this i386 
>> FC5 install on an amd64 hp laptop, a dv5320us, but while the various 
>> software cd players and rippers all go thru the motions of playing 
>> the tracks, nothing actually gets to the speakers or headphones. 
>> Someone mentioned that because these lappy's never come equipt with 
>> the audio cable from the drive to the audio circuitry, that I should 
>> reconfigure it to use the data from the data bus. Its a nice idea, 
>> but I've not found such a configuration option in any of the 
>> installed stuff, nor in any of the extras I've since loaded, so how 
>> does one go about doing this bit of data steering?
>> -- Cheers, Gene
>
> Different model (zv6015us) and running FC4 x86_64 but I just played an 
> audio CD on it last night.  I insert the CD in the DVD-CD 
> writer/player and "cd player" starts automagically and starts playing 
> the CD.  It "just worked" after the FC4 install so no idea why yours 
> doesn't make sounds.
> I take it that playing say an MP3 or ogg file works?  what about 
> viewing a DVD?  other sounds?
>
I think they might, but thats not tested.  This system started out 
fairly noisey, but it hasn't made a peep in quite a while now, even when 
I was playing with skype headset last night, all of which worked.  But 
going into ekiga's configs I played for quite a while before it finally 
played the ring-tone.wav, in the headset but not in the speakers.  The 
no-speaker led is on, and I have NDI how to shut that off.  All new 
machinery, and aged operator aren't mixing well I fear.
If I can remember, I have an audio cd in the truck I'll bring in  
tonight and rip with grip, then see if I can play the ripped files & get 
back with a yay/nay.
> Cheers,
> Dave
>


-- 
Cheers, Gene