I use RedHat 8.0 on a hp pavilion 443,
my sound card is an Intel 82801DB AC'97

I need to install ALSA driver to have sound working (following ALSA website documentation and also mia.ece.uic.edu/~papers/volans/alsa.html).

I can hear the sounds generated by the gnome environment.

The problem comes when I want to use CD audio.
When I run gnome-cd :
- the correct number of tracks is detected
- the time counter runs
- but I hear no sound ! THAT'S THE PROBLEM !!!!

Please help me, thank's
Bernard

Do you have an audio cable connected between your sound card and your CDROM drive?

If so is the volume control level for the CD audio not muted and and turned up?

Once you've installed the alsa-driver, make sure you install the alsa-utils as well. Then open up a command prompt (maximised) and type 'alsamixer'. Unmute the cd audio channel, and increase the volume.

Good luck.

My problem is not resolved, so I add more informations...

- CDROM audio is working with windows, so the hardware connection must be correct.
- I have set volume control with alsamixer, CD channel is not muted and turned up.
- I made some tests with "cdp", and got the same result as with gnome-cd : no sound.
- I start my kernel with the following option "pci=biosirq" (file grub.conf, I need the option for the PCTEL driver)

If anybody can help...

Did you verify that you have an audio cable connected between the drive and the sound card?

No, I did not check the CD-ROM / sound card connection. I'd like to update only software.

I understand that to get audio off a CD there are 2 modes :
- analog output, with an audio cable between CD-ROM / sound card
- Digital Audio Extraction, where the digital audio stream is sent from the CD to the CPU

I tried to install xmms 1.2.8-1, which seems to support DAE mode, but I get the following errors :

error : Failed dependencies
libasound.so.2 is needed by xmms-1.2.8-1
libpthread.so.0 (GLIBC-2.3.2) is needed by xmms-1.2.8-1

Did somebody successfully install xmms 1.2.8-1 on redhat 8.0 ?

Thank's again