playing cd's on an hp laptop?

[David G. Miller]

Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net> wrote: 

> I've tried an audio cd in the drive a couple of times on this i386 FC5 
> install on an amd64 hp laptop, a dv5320us, but while the various 
> software cd players and rippers all go thru the motions of playing the 
> tracks, nothing actually gets to the speakers or headphones. Someone 
> mentioned that because these lappy's never come equipt with the audio 
> cable from the drive to the audio circuitry, that I should reconfigure 
> it to use the data from the data bus. Its a nice idea, but I've not 
> found such a configuration option in any of the installed stuff, nor 
> in any of the extras I've since loaded, so how does one go about doing 
> this bit of data steering?
> -- Cheers, Gene

Different model (zv6015us) and running FC4 x86_64 but I just played an 
audio CD on it last night.  I insert the CD in the DVD-CD writer/player 
and "cd player" starts automagically and starts playing the CD.  It 
"just worked" after the FC4 install so no idea why yours doesn't make 
sounds. 

I take it that playing say an MP3 or ogg file works?  what about viewing 
a DVD?  other sounds?

Cheers,
Dave