After a good deal of poking around, I've finally got sound working correctly.However, when I try to play a CD (using Audio CD Player) everything seems to work except there is no sound. If I open and play an mp3, it is normal. If I insert a DVD into the same drive the CD was in, the audio is again normal.

On a separate question, is it normal that CDs (and DVDs) are automaticall ripped without user request?

Thanks for any answers.

Mikex

What distribution and desktop are you using? I only used KDE briefly, but I remember that it used to automatically rip CDs...look around in the KDE control center or the system preferences to disable it.

With regards to the lack of audio: are you certain that the drive's audio out is connected to the sound card? I'm not sure if this is the problem, since in Windows (a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away) I remember needing that plugged in to rip mp3s, but I don't know if Linux does it this way or not. Do your mp3s (those that get autocreated that is) play normally?

I'm using Linare 2 and KDE. Thanks for the tip, I'll try looking to see if I can find where that is set up.

Yes, the mp3s ripped from the CD play normally. Also, I assume the drive's audio is connected because, as I wrote, DVDs play normally -- that is, the audio from the DVD is audible.

Could there be a setting related to the Audio CD Player that I'm missing?

Thanks.

One more suggestion: somewhere in the menus should be a "sound mixer" or "sound levels" option. Look at that and see if somehow your CD-ROM has been muted or turned down way low.