I've just installed SuSE9.0, kernal 2.4.21-99 on a Gateway 310, 2.4 GHz Pentium 4, 256MB RAM, with an 82801DB AC'97 Audio Controller, an HL-DT-STDVD-ROM GDR8161B, and an HL-DT-ST GCE-8481B CD-burner. Sound works fine on everything EXCEPT audio cd's. No matter what audio player I use, it correctly detects the inserted audio cd, does a cddb-lookup, and shows the tracks, and plays the cd, except I get no audio. The following is the result of modprobe -c | grep snd:

alias char-major-116 snd
alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-11 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
options snd-intel8x0 snd_ac97_clock=0 snd_enable=1 snd_index=0
options snd snd_cards_limit=1 snd_major=116

In Control Center, under audio cd's, cd device is set to determine device automatically, and under sound I/O method is autodetect, changing either has no effect. Everything else is working great. I can rip and encode cd's and play ogg and mp3 off of data cd's and disk files, but still no sound from audio cd's. I hear sound for everything except audio cd's. Does anyone have any clues? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers,
Corso

I was able to get xmms to play audio cd's by configuring the audio cd player plugin module to use digital audio extraction. Thanks for the emails!

THANK YOU THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I NEEDED TO KNOW!