RE: playing audio CDs on FC4

From: gary (garys_at_mtaonline.net)
Date: 11/30/05

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    Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 19:09:01 -0900
    
    

    On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 13:23 +1000, Craig Preston wrote:
    > If the sound card is an onboard one, the motherboard will have the plug
    > on it somewhere. Time to find the manual :)
    >
    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: fedora-list-bounces@redhat.com
    > [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@redhat.com] On Behalf Of Gerhard Magnus
    > Sent: Wednesday, 30 November 2005 12:39 PM
    > To: For users of Fedora Core releases
    > Subject: RE: playing audio CDs on FC4
    >
    >
    > > I'm running FC4 with a KDE desktop on a new Pentium 4 dual
    > booting
    > > with Windows XP. Under Windows I can play and rip CDs on the DVD
    > > drive using Windows Media Player without anything unusual happening.
    > > (I mention this only to eliminate the obvious hardware issues.)
    > > With FC4 the system recognizes my soundcard:
    > > Vendor: Intel
    > > Model: Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/RW/FRW (ICH6 Family) High
    > > Definition Audio Controller
    > > Module: snd-hda-intel
    > > and plays the usual test tune.
    > > The mixer KMix shows all the outputs turned on with 75% volume
    > > (except for PCM which doesn't seem to have a mute function.)
    > > The CD players xmms and KsCD both appear to be playing from the
    > drive
    > > but I can't get any sound.
    >
    > On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 08:55 +1000, Craig Preston wrote:
    > > Have you plugged the cd drive into the input on the sound card.
    > > Windows can play music without this cable, but I'm not sure if Linux
    > can.
    >
    > OK, I popped the case. There's no soundcard in the PCA slots so it must
    > be on the motherboard somewhere.... I don't have a clue where to
    > connect that CD cable. My dealer said this machine used a newer
    > architecture but it can't be that new! Are there any linux settings or
    > linux cd-playing software that get around this problem?
    >
     A more simple solution may be, just plug your speaker(s) into your
    digital output. (probably a black plugin -not green. At some point
    after installing fc4, my analog output stopped functioning yet when I
    use a different os I have to change the plug back to analog. --gary

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