Using the sound card

Michael Schwendt fedora at wir-sind-cool.org
Tue Sep 14 09:53:19 UTC 2004


On Tue, 14 Sep 2004 10:03:11 +0200, Padiyath Sreekumaran wrote:

>      I have a linux PC with the following configuration.
> 
>      #uname -a gives 
>      Linux pc4289 2.4.20-28.9 #1 Thu Dec 18 13:45:22 EST 2003 i686 i686 i386
> GNU/Linux

That's an old kernel. You might want to get a newer one and other security
fixes for Red Hat Linux 9 from http://www.fedoralegacy.org

>     I would like to have a driver to use the CD player.
>     Where I can get the driver SW? Whether the driver SW
>     is available in RPM format? How can I add the module to the
>     kernel? Iam new to Linux OS.

>  I use kde. Which SW can I use to play the CD? Iam new to 
>  Linux.

Most likely you don't need a driver. You didn't say what problems
you've encountered. Probably you just don't have a cable between
your CD drive and your soundcard/chipset. Newer audio players
don't need a cable since they read Audio CDs digitally, e.g.
XMMS >= 1.2.8 comes with a plugin that can be configured
appropriately. For Red Hat Linux 9 you could try the xmms-cdread
add-on http://download.fedora.us/fedora/redhat/9/i386/RPMS.testing/
but it gives varying results for users (hence "testing").

Better get a cable for the beginning.

>     #lsmod gives
>     Module                  Size  Used by    Tainted: PF 
> ipv6                  177748  -1 
> i810_audio             27624   0  (autoclean)
> ac97_codec             14568   0  (autoclean) [i810_audio]
> soundcore               6404   2  (autoclean) [i810_audio]

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