[lug] RH 7.2 Sound problem

[rm at fabula.de]

On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 09:39:06AM -0700, Jeffery D. Collins wrote:
> Your message prompted a call to tech support and I finally have a better
> understanding of
> the situation.  They didn't install an analog cable from
> the CDROM to the sound card, so sound in Linux won't work.  As you mentioned
> below,
> digital sound is enabled in W2K.  Apparently, by going into the control
> panel for the CDROM
> and disabling digital sound, the front jack will start working again for all
> OSs.  If I also install
> an analog cable from the CDROM to the sound card, sound should start working
> under
> linux.
> 
> Does anyone know if Linux will support CDs digitally as W2K does?

Hmm, what do you mean by that? Linux _does_ support CDs digitally, otherwise
you wouldn't be able to 'rip' audio CDs  to mpg3 or wav format. Or do you mean
'is there a CD player application that plays from a mounted audic CD?'.


  Ralf 
> --
> Jeffery Collins (http://www.boulder.net/~jcollins)
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Hugh Brown" <hugh at vecna.com>
> To: <lug at lug.boulder.co.us>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 8:19 AM
> Subject: Re: [lug] RH 7.2 Sound problem
> 
> 
> > Windows2K will play cd's digitally (i.e. the cable from the cd drive to
> > the sound card doesn't have to be there).
> 
> 
> >
> > So, make sure the cable is connected.  Can you plug a pair of headphones
> > into the cdrom and hit the play button on the drive?