Why doesn't my cd produce sound?
 

00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT8233/A/C/VT8235 PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50)
My cdrom drive appears to be mounting fine. I can get data off of the cd and I can write to the cd, but I cannot seem to get sound from my audio cd.
When the CD is playe dusing KsCD, no sound is outputted to the speakers. I have checked for muting on KsCD and KsMix, but that does not seem to be the problem.

hi cinnamonq, welcome to lq. do you have a sound cable attached from the cdrom to the sound card or motherboard? also what does /etc/fstab look like?

mixer
 

You may also have to look around under your the audio section of your main menu and make sure you don't have the volume control set all the way down....

Do this command:
aumix
and turn up the nessesary volumes if theyre muted.

kcd requires an audio cable between the sound card and the CD drive. xmms (i.e. latest version) is one application that uses digital audio extraction and therefore does not require the audio cable.

Do you hear system sounds and can you play MP3s or music files that are stored on the hard drive?

Ack, I can barely believe that it was so simple as to bhe missing an audio cable. I guess it does not pay to trust your manufacturer for all those interior cables.

You dont need the cable if you use XMMS, which can use digital audio extraction. Try that.

how do you make xmms 1.2.7 play Audio CDs. I mean what path do you browse through to locate the *.cda files?

/mnt/cdrom is the path. if it's an audio cd, you wont need to do anything but put the disk in the drive. if it's a data cd with music files on it, you'll need to mount it first.
good luck.

experienced the same issue, so I got the ccable from my ex PC, however my mainboard don't have a "CD Audio in" connection ... so I use Totem Media Player to listen to CDs ... any chance that I can make that the default player as I pop my audio cd in ?

AND I can't get any System Sounds (which I don't really need but by that fact want) are the 2 issues correlated ?

Kman

To get system sounds in fedora, you need to turn on esd (the sound daemon for gnome).

SuSE 9.1 sound for RealTek AC'97
 

1. Use alsaconf

2. Use Multimedia/CD/DVD Tools/Grip to rip a song to your directory then use xmms to play.

3. Or use Multimedia/Audio Player/ALSAPlayer click on box lower left and select CD Player

4. Took me all day but I am listening to Santana/Jingo