I have checked the cables from cd to soundcard, rights to devices, and anything else I could find to check to get a cd to play. It is not muted any place that I can find. My soundcard will play sounds for opening and closing programs and will play music from harddrive but not cd. I seen something about having to configure or turn on the inputs from cd to soundcard, but I cant find any more than that. This is the only thing that doen't work, and I don't really needed but it should work. I have RedHat 8.0 workstation install with hda is Windows, hdb is linux, hdc is cdrom/rw, hdd is cdrom, sound is SB ensoniq audioPCI. There has to be some little dumb something that I can't find.

there are a lot of topics about this.

try the search option at the top of your screen

I have searched and visit this site often in hopes of finding a fix. All the answers run toward pluging in the cable from cd to soundcard, which I have, to rights to devices, which I have changed, to making sure something is not muted, which nothing is. I have searched google, and visited other linux sites, no luck.

I am having the same problem TES, I am using Suse 8.1 and cant find a fix as yet, but I will let you know if i do.

1) Check you are using a CD playing program, not attempting to use say XMMS

2) Check the mixer settings, either in KDE or using alsamixer

well i'm using SuSE 8.1 pers. too and i can't play them either. Even if i use KCD or whatever it's called

I can put the cd's in wav on my harddisk, but i don't really wanna do that

Have you tried it under any other OS - has it worked in the past?

Just trying to rule out a faulty cable or connection.

Works fine in windows, it will play a cd from cdrom or cdrw.