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AC97 No Sound from CD's
Name: Jeff Date: October 9, 2002 at 11:19:41 Pacific OS: Linux CPU/Ram: P4-1.8/512MB
Comment:
My system has the Intel 82801 BA/BAM AC97 on-board sound controller and will play DVD's, mp3's and all the other sounds in Redhat 8.0/7.3 except for CD's. When CD's are played the player comes up, identifies the CD (ID3 tags etc), plays it, but there is no sound.
Redhat is identifying the sound chip as the i810 AC97 (after I disabled PNP in the bios). If I rip a CD to mp3 format then the mp3's will play fine as well. I've also got Windows XP installed on the other drive and that plays CDs perfectly. Anyone have any ideas as to how I can fix this?
I was having this problem with 7.3 and then performed a clean install with 8.0 thinking maybe that would fix it.
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