cd problem, playing music with digital cable
I'm having a (small) problem with cd playing in SuSE.
I have a soundblaster Live 5.1 and I recently bought a BTC Combo drive 52X24X52/16X. It came with an analog connection to the soundcard, but who wants analog? So I plugged in the digital connector that came with the sound card. It doesn't work in Linux. The analog one works, but no sound comes out the center speaker or the rear speakers. I'm using KsCD to play the cds and had to go into the mixer window of KAMix, click on the "Ext. Source playback" and unmute the AUX slider to get sound out of the front 2 speakers.
I booted up into Windows 98SE and enabled digital playback in the multimedia setup section. Now the digital line worked fine, but when I rebooted my BIOS wouldn't detect my hard drives!!! What gives? Had to unplug the digital connector, then hard drives were detected fine. What would cause this? I have it set up as Secondary Master. I have two hard drives and two cdrom drives. I tried the digital connector on the other cdrom, same thing.
A similar thing happened when I installed the software that came bundled with the combo drive CyberLink PowerDVD XP 4.0
After install it ran a diagnostic and asked if I'd like to enable DMA, why not? So I did, and rebooted. Boom, no more hard drives again! Had to unplug the IDE cable and boot back into windows. PowerDVD asked if I'd like to restore all changes. Yes!! And got my hard drives back with combo drive plugged in again.
When I went into Yast and selected IDE DMA setup it shows that both cdroms have DMA set to off. When I set the cdrw/dvd dma mode to DMA ON (default) the very scary warning of "Enabling DMA on some devices can cause data loss or system lock" I didn't know if I'd be able to undo this system lock so I erred on the side of caution and aborted.
Is there a problem with the drive, my BIOS, what? I'm running a PIII 1.13 GHz
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