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I just installed SuSE 9.0 and cannot play cds. In 8.2 it seemed to work
with at least xmms player. I would like to play CDs with all the other
players too of course.
I have a LG DVD-ROM DRD8160B player. I installed the SuSE DVD with it no
problems. Also my sound card is a blaster live I think. I removed the
sound card and am using on board sound (soyo board) in the hopes that is
was the lack of cable between DVD-ROM and sound card. CDs still don't
play: i.e. I can see them playing, but hear nothing.
I have both physically a dvd-rom and a cd-rw and icons for both. In
dev/media there is cd-rom, dvd, and cd-rw. I have tried removing
autodetect and changing to Alsa and playing with mixers and increasing
sound. Still even xmms (which I assume does not need sound card cable)
plays but without sound.
I've heard LG is crap and am thinking of buying a new dvd-rom that will
play cd music in SuSe so any suggestions to that affect would be welcome.
hmm, have you tried different output drivers in xmms?
OSS works for me, but some people prefer eSound.
run aumix and make sure that Vol and CD are the only ones up.
on my machine having anything else on affects the sound
Unless you have a player capable of digital audio extraction (which XMMS normally isn't by default although I believe a plugin exists for it) then you definitely need an analogue audio cable running between your CD-Rom driver and sound card before you'll hear anything being played off CD Audio discs.
You mentioned that DAE seemed to work with 8.2 but not 9.0, have you tried looking through the XMMS plugins list and checking to see if the digital audio plugin is both installed and activated?
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