I recently did a clean install of Slackware which promptly updated to "current" using Swaret. I am having trouble getting my CD Rom drive to play audio CDs. Presently, KDE will allow me to "play" a CD only as root even though (to my knowledge) my fstab should allow for any user to mount CDs or play audio CDs. Unfortunately, when root "plays" the CD there is NO sound even though I have all my volume levels up in alsamixer and kmixer.

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I am using a Toshiba 1625CDT and the sound card is detected by Alsa as a CS4281. My KDE system sounds play however they are choppy. I have absolutely NO midi playback. Can someone please help me. I haven't been able to find help through searching the forums.

Thanks!

**EDIT**
Well, it turned out that Alsamixer had the CD player muted which is why I had no sound. So the sound card operation is fine.

i fixed it by doing this...i first edited /etc/fstab to show this

changing /dev/cdrom to /dev/hdc...

then i did and that gave me the permissions to use the cdrom as a user...

Thanks!! Problem solved! I followed your instructions and now I am listening to Continuum by Jaco Pastorius...as my own user.

Midi sound is another ball of wax.

I would advise searching this forum and 'hardware' for 'midi+playback'.

BTW, I'll blow my horn as I blow thru B'ham heading south on 65....Everyday for the next week...lol

I'll listen for it. I live fairly close to Hwy 65.....but not REALLY close enough to hear it. ;-)

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