[NTLUG:Discuss] Sound Problems

[Stuart Johnston]

Peter A. Koren wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-07-10 at 17:51 -0500, Stuart Johnston wrote:
> 
>>Peter A. Koren wrote:
>>
>>>I got my DVD/CD player/burner working for DVD's (video and sound), but
>>>playing audio CD's produces no sound running KsCD. KsCD shows that the
>>>Music is playing and even gets the correct information from servers on
>>>the net to add to the cddb data base. Double clicking on a wav file on a
>>>data CD works, but regular audio CDs do not work. I'm running a RHEL
>>>(Fedora 3) derived distribution on an AMD 64 based system. Sound seems
>>>to work for everything but normal CD playing.
>>>
>>>Any hints?
>>
>>Make sure that you have an audio cable connected from your cd drive to 
>>your sound card (or motherboard).  Also go into your audio mixer and 
>>check the volume of the CD audio inputs.
> 
> 
> I assume that since I was able to play wave files from a data CD that my
> cable is properly installed. Am I wrong? 

Yes.

> Is .wav data sent digitally As
> a file over the EIDE ribbon cable or does the drive firmware decode it
> and send it along over the analog 4-pin sound cable? I just do not know.

It will be sent digitally over the IDE cable.  The Audio cable (can be 
digital or analog) is only used when playing CD-Audio discs.

> And since DVDs work (video and sound), I have to ask, "does analog sound
> go over the analog cable or digitally over the EIDE cable?" If the
> former, the cable must be OK.

I believe that DVD does not use the Audio cable.

If you have XMMS installed, go to Options -> Preferences (Ctrl-P). 
Select "CD Audio Player" and click Configure.  Now select "Digital audio 
extraction" under Play mode.  This should allow you to play audio CDs 
without the Audio cable.