CD-ROM not playing music

[Norton Trevisan Roman]

I'm having this problem as well... yesterday I discovered that the
checkbox "enable sound server" or something like this was not clicked in
my Gnome... I didn't test it... but I think my problem was that sound was
just not switched on in gnome

norton
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On Sun, 9 May 2004, Clint Harshaw wrote:

> Jamie Cadorette wrote:
> >>If the sound card does not work, how can you expect
> >>sound from the CD????
> >
> >
> > The sound card does work, I've determined. The problem
> > is in CD Player or any other app, I press play and
> > nothing happens. Yet the apps can tell me how many
> > songs are on the CD, durations, etc.
> >
> > The mixer is fine. I can play sound off the Internet
> > and system sounds without trouble. Clicking play in CD
> > Player gets nothing. The player doesn't advance
> > through the track, the CD-ROM doesn't start reading
> > the disc. Nothing. It doesn't seem as though the sound
> > configuration is the issue, but rather something with
> > the CD-ROM, whether it's driver related or hardware. I
> > wouldn't doubt the latter, since it's an old Sony SCSI
> > 4X. I know it worked fine when I ran FreeBSD a few
> > years ago on the same machine.
> >
> > My install is fresh with no modifications yet. I am
> > using the AIC7XXX SCSI HBA Driver (Rev 6.2.36) that
> > came on the drvblock disk image. The driver is
> > detecting both my CD-ROM and SCSI Zip drive just fine.
> >
> > Please excuse my lack of experience with this. My
> > scope is limited to interactive sessions working
> > remotely on servers at college and at my job. I
> > briefly ran FreeBSD at home, but couldn't continue to
> > use it because I had limited resources and needed them
> > for more essential tasks.
> >
>
> I may have missed some of this thread -- I apologize in advance if that
> is the case -- but have you tried an alternate CD player? Try logging
> into KDE and see if the CD player that comes with KDE will play it for you.
>
> Clint
>
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