All seems to work correctly, but I can't hear any sound from cd
Amarok, xmms, juk and kscd all seem to play the cd (time is running), but no sound.

yes, I turned the required lights on in Kmix
yes, I did install my soundcard properly
and yes, it DOES work in that other crappy operating system
there's nothing wrong with cables or something like that

I'm using the very popular mandrake 10.1, i think playing a cd is not the most complicated thing.

I'm very frustrated, for it's just such a simple thing

Can you play sounds from any other source, like an mp3 file or web radio? Since you know your CD player works on some other OS, (that eliminates the cables and hardware) some setting may be muted, volume truned down, or your sound card not configured correctly.

Would you please post the results of teh command "lsmod" ( as su ). You should see the sound modules that are loaded. If not, that may be the source of your problems. Here is a sample of what it may look like.

thanks for reacting!

yeah, mp3's, radio's and audio from movies are working fine. Hope you can decifer something from this:

[root@x1722033180 helmer]# lsmod
Module Size Used by
binfmt_misc 9992 1
ppp_synctty 9088 0
ppp_async 10208 1
crc-ccitt 2656 1 ppp_async
ppp_generic 27028 6 ppp_synctty,ppp_async
slhc 7104 1 ppp_generic
md5 4576 1
ipv6 249412 10
rfcomm 34456 0
l2cap 22368 5 rfcomm
bluetooth 42436 4 rfcomm,l2cap
snd-seq-oss 33728 0
snd-seq-midi-event 7328 1 snd-seq-oss
snd-seq 52560 4 snd-seq-oss,snd-seq-midi-event
snd-pcm-oss 51080 0
snd-mixer-oss 18592 1 snd-pcm-oss
snd-intel8x0 31660 1
snd-ac97-codec 70736 1 snd-intel8x0
snd-pcm 86948 2 snd-pcm-oss,snd-intel8x0
snd-timer 22724 2 snd-seq,snd-pcm
snd-page-alloc 8392 2 snd-intel8x0,snd-pcm
gameport 4416 1 snd-intel8x0
snd-mpu401-uart 7168 1 snd-intel8x0
snd-rawmidi 21188 1 snd-mpu401-uart
snd-seq-device 7336 3 snd-seq-oss,snd-seq,snd-rawmidi
snd 49028 13 snd-seq-oss,snd-seq,snd-pcm-oss,snd-mixer-oss,snd-intel8x0,snd-ac97-codec,snd-pcm,snd-t
imer,snd-mpu401-uart,snd-rawmidi,snd-seq-device
soundcore 8288 1 snd
af_packet 17864 6
eth1394 18792 0
8139too 22816 0
mii 5216 1 8139too
ide-cd 38528 0
cdrom 38844 1 ide-cd
ohci1394 32676 0
ieee1394 294872 2 eth1394,ohci1394
loop 13896 0
joydev 9056 0
nls_iso8859-1 4672 1
evdev 8672 0
tsdev 6848 0
ntfs 149980 1
usbmouse 5216 0
usbhid 43328 0
intel-agp 20608 1
agpgart 29036 1 intel-agp
sd_mod 20320 0
usb-storage 67040 0
scsi_mod 107428 3 sd_mod,usb-storage
ehci-hcd 27972 0
uhci-hcd 30448 0
usbcore 107396 7 usbmouse,usbhid,usb-storage,ehci-hcd,uhci-hcd
ext3 123496 2
jbd 56600 1 ext3

I don't see any problems with the loaded modules, and since you can play mp3's and web radio, they must be O.K.

The only other thing that comes to my mind is the User and Group the devices for the CD player are set for. I can remember changing mine on 10.1 to group "audio", but I can't remember why I did it. To check that out, if you click on the Home icon on the desktop, and navigate to /dev/sound you should see about 5 icons. I changes the group to "audio" You can make sure your user, and any other user wanting to play CD's belongs to group audio.

One other question, when you try to play a CD, does the disk light for the CD player go on and off? It should.

There is a small cable that runs from the CD drive to your sound card. Is it installed correctly? The reason Windows can work without it is because it uses "digital extraction", which is also avaiable in Linux, but not by default -- J.W.