Can't hear music off of cd-rom

fantomlord · 07-06-2001, 10:07 AM

Mandrake 8.0
Soundblaster

I try to listen to music cd, but I'm getting no sound!
I know the soundcard works, and the cd is working but
alas no sound when playing a music cd, anyone out there
can help me that would be great

trickykid · 07-06-2001, 10:42 AM

can you hear other types of sounds like off the actual hard drive... saved files, wav files... etc?
Is your cable from cdrom to sound card connected properly? What about dual boot, does it work in other OS's on same computer?

Star Child · 07-06-2001, 12:28 PM

fire up your audiomix...
the cd volume is probabaly muted.

trickykid · 07-06-2001, 01:06 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Star Child
fire up your audiomix...
the cd volume is probabaly muted.

Good point, didn't think about it at the time. Yeah I forgot most of the time its defaulted on mute.

fantomlord · 07-06-2001, 02:33 PM

well its not on mute-what else could it be?
I have the cd-rom hooked up to the soundcard correctly (cd-in)
works fine on win, and I have been able to play and hear off the harddrive just fine

>even more bizarre, i hit the play button on the cd-rom and it works
still kind of annoying

webtoe · 07-06-2001, 04:33 PM

i assume that you are able to mount and unmount the cd (you don;t need to do this to play a cd but if you can;t mount etc. then it might be a problem in fstab or something)

Alex