/dev/cdrom question

[David Curry]

C Toews wrote:

>
> Jonathan,
>
> Thanks very much for the help.  Your description of the device files 
> was very helpful.  I followed the directions on the links you gave me 
> and succeeded in generating a symbolic link between /dev/cdrom and 
> /dev/hdc.  When I crank up the cd player (I'm using gnome-cd), it now 
> at least looks like its playing the disc (i.e. it shows the tracks, 
> and when I push play, the seconds tick by, etc.)
>
> Still no sound, unfortunately.  I've tried messing with the volume 
> settings, all to no avail.  I know its not a matter of a missing 
> cable, since audio plays fine on the Windows side (I'm running this on 
> a laptop, by the way, for whatever its worth.)  I'm a little confused 
> about which volume settings to adjust:  there seem to be three volume 
> settings of relevance,  one being the volume bar on the player itself, 
> one being the volume icon in the tray (I'm running gnome) and the 
> third being the large sound panel with lots of different option I can 
> access from the sound and video menu.  I've tried unmuting everything 
> via the latter and putting all other volume settings on all other 
> volume bars up to max.  Of course, with so many volume bars, it is 
> hard to know if there might not be some particular combination of ups, 
> downs, mutings, etc. that leads to sounds, but this seems to me 
> improbable.  I do get sound when I do the sound check, so the system 
> knows about the sound card.  The difficulty seems to be connecting the 
> sound card to the player.  I've tried other players (in particular, 
> Grip) with the same silent results.... ;-(
>
> Argh.  I'll keep plugging away and see what happens.  Thanks again for 
> your help--if you have any more ideas, I'd be very pleased to hear them.
>
> Best,
> Carl
>
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