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

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

-----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

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Daniel James wrote: | You mean extract the audio through the IDE cable? I tried this, for supposedly | better sound quality, but I found the increase in noise from the drive | spinning faster negated any audio quality benefit Aha. This is what I was aiming for. I've a fairly quiet drive. Can you remember how you went about accessing the signal from the IDE cable?

It can dramatically improve the sound quality you hear as you don't have an ad/da conversion.