I have FC3 on my laptop and my desktop. The laptop plays CD audio out of the speakers fine but that is because the CD output is, essentially, directly connected to the speakers.

When I try to play a CD on my desktop i can only get sound if I plug my speakers or headphones directly into CD drive.

Anyone have any ideas?

This might seem silly, but check it anyway, Ive surprized a few people with this:

Did you check your volume levels, and unmute/increase them?

lol, yep, i cranked them all right up in alsamixer and unmuted them. Is there anything i SHOULD mute or anything else i should do?

Sometimes this comes loose. Just un/reattach it, see what happens.
Try playing something directly from your hard drive using xmms, bypassing the cable.

I'm having the same issue. My CDR will simply lock up with an audio CD and my CDRW will start playing with no sound coming out of the soundcard. I've checked every cable to ensure that wasn't an issue. I've changed every setting in alsamixer. I've had no success getting any of it to work. I have to rip CDs and listen to them in xmms. Rhythmbox simply pukes and dies when I feed it the same file xmms plays without an issue.

HA! sound with XMMS off my hard drive. That doesn't even work. I've never had so much audio problems untill i went to FC3...

IIRC, fc3 reports on audio as part of the boot sequence. Any messages?

Could it be the soundcard?

Could you boot your computer with a live-evaluation CD like mepis, knoppix, gentoo, ubuntu and see if you can play things through the soundcard?

kudzu --probe
sndconfig?

i checked the sound on windows, doesn't work. No errors on boot.

Whats that last thing you put?

type

man kudzu
and
man sndconfig

at the command line. If it brings up some info read it. If it comes up with "command not found", don't worry about it.

If things aren't working under windows, it may be your soundcard that is defective.

Sorry, i meant to say it DOES work on windows.

Again, it's not too hard to download and burn a live-evaluation CD...and some, like knoppix and mepis, have great autodetection/configuration of hardware. If it works with one of these, maybe someone else can help you to figure out which configuration file to copy over to your hard-drive installed linux distro.

googling is really helpful, as is using the search option on these web forums. Justlinux is a nice place, though a bit less patient than this help site. They are under the impression that they are more sophisticated and knowledgable

I believe there is also a fedora forum (distro specific). Google for it.

I have knoppix and P.H.L.A.K., tried em, didn't work. I also posted on fedora forums before here and people stopped responding.

But on the bright side, i "upgraded" from fedora 3 to fedora 3 so i'm guessing there was just some hicup in the last install as far as configuring the sound. Thanks alot ot anyone who posted here, i appreciate the help.