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Name: Wookie
Date: October 15, 2002 at 15:41:05 Pacific
Subject: SuSE and no sound from CD's
OS: SUSE 8.0
CPU/Ram: Celeron/384
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I have tried both Gnome and KDE, with a variety of CD players for each, but I have yet been able to play any of my CD's.

Am I missing something easy? I do get system sounds, and when messsing with the system>configuration>soundcard, I hit the test button and music came out.

I know that this is going to be something easy...ain't it!

Wookie


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Name: armin
Date: October 15, 2002 at 15:56:39 Pacific
Subject: SuSE and no sound from CD's
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is your sound card wired with your cdrom drive?


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Response Number 2
Name: Newbiedoo
Date: October 17, 2002 at 03:16:52 Pacific
Subject: SuSE and no sound from CD's
Reply: (edit)

I had the same problem.

Use the CD player that looks a bit like winamp (XXMS I think) and configure that to look by default into dev/hdb or dev/hdc or whatever position your CDrom is on the IDE bus. There is another fix that you can type into the shell to solve this but I am a newbie and cant remeber it was on the suse help faq. For some reason suse set up for example CDRom as dev/cdrom and dev/cdrecorder and does not fully link with dev/hdb etc... bla blah.

Also if you have no sound cable then go into YAST2/hardware/IDE and select DMA on for your CDRom - this should use digital audio extraction and let you hear your sounds.. Remember dont try and mount the CDrom it doesnt...just play it.

Your CDROM may be dogy for data CD's or DVD's etc once DMA is on, I dont know why this is and is one of my only gripes as it prevents me from playing DVD's smoothly in Linux.. whereas windows does it no prob...oh! sacralige... :P

good luck

Stevie


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