Are you using ALSA, turned the volume up? On Sunday 27 April 2003 21:16, Tim wrote: > Hi, > > My CD will not pass the audio of CDs to the onboard sound. If I use > XMMS and the libcdaudio plugin, the disc is seen and played but no sound > comes through (Geforce nForce audio which is run with Intel ICH kernel > configuration). > > CDtool also is unable to play audio CDs, with the error > > cdplay: ioctl cdrommsf > > even as root, so not a permissions problem. cdir and cdeject work. > > It works just fine using SCSI emulation, I can mound data CDs, write > CD-Rs, rip audio CDs. > > My onboard sound works otherwise, successfully playing from the hard disk. > > I have had the CD drive replaced already for another reason, but the > problem remains. There is no play button on the fascia of the drive, or > headphone socket. > > Has anyone got any suggestions for my quandry? > > I'm using Debian 3.0r0, Linux kernel 2.4.18 > > TIA, Tim

With the AudioCD Reader plugin for xmms. If you go to Configure - Output there is the option Read Digital CD Audio. I think some people have had problems with this plugin recently though. I reckon the internal digital audio cable is probably the best way to go. I can't think why you would want to play (as opposed to rip) audio through the IDE cable unless you wanted to pass the CD data by the OS for DRM purposes. That's my conspiracy theory, at least...

Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] No CD audio! Daniel James wrote: It can dramatically improve the sound quality you hear as you don't have an ad/da conversion.

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hartmut Noack wrote: | It is the same on my Box - CD plays but no sound | | the reason: i have not attached the cdrom-audio-out socked to the | appropriate cd-audio-input on my soundcard ;-)) | | if your cd-audio-input should not work anyway, try the spdf-in (if there | is one...) Ah. But I was thinking the digital out could be passed directly to the sound interface. I'm using onboard sound, not a card unfortunately. Thx