more problems playing audio CDs on FC4
Tim
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Thu Dec 1 11:16:53 UTC 2005
On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 08:05 -0800, Gerhard Magnus wrote:
> I'm still having problems playing audio CDs with a KDE desktop running
> on a Pentium 4. The system recognizes my "soundcard" which is on the
> motherboard rather than in a slot.
What type of card. Some aren't compatible. ISA cards aren't always too
brilliant.
> (2) I'm getting noise that sounds like static when I play a CD. The
> problem is not the speakers since I get the same interference when I
> plug in headphones instead. Also, this problem does not occur when I
> boot Windows XP on the same machine and play the same CD using Windows
> Media Player or iTunes. The static (which sounds like something on a
> cheap radio) stops during gaps between songs so I've assumed it has
> something to do with the volume settings.
If it didn't work on either, I'd have said a bad sound card. But
perhaps it's drivers that aren't very good. There's also a chance that
your CD-ROM and it aren't that compatible, if other things play sound
fine.
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