CD-ROM not playing music

[Clint Harshaw]

Jamie Cadorette wrote:
>>If the sound card does not work, how can you expect
>>sound from the CD????
> 
> 
> The sound card does work, I've determined. The problem
> is in CD Player or any other app, I press play and
> nothing happens. Yet the apps can tell me how many
> songs are on the CD, durations, etc.
> 
> The mixer is fine. I can play sound off the Internet
> and system sounds without trouble. Clicking play in CD
> Player gets nothing. The player doesn't advance
> through the track, the CD-ROM doesn't start reading
> the disc. Nothing. It doesn't seem as though the sound
> configuration is the issue, but rather something with
> the CD-ROM, whether it's driver related or hardware. I
> wouldn't doubt the latter, since it's an old Sony SCSI
> 4X. I know it worked fine when I ran FreeBSD a few
> years ago on the same machine.
> 
> My install is fresh with no modifications yet. I am
> using the AIC7XXX SCSI HBA Driver (Rev 6.2.36) that
> came on the drvblock disk image. The driver is
> detecting both my CD-ROM and SCSI Zip drive just fine.
> 
> Please excuse my lack of experience with this. My
> scope is limited to interactive sessions working
> remotely on servers at college and at my job. I
> briefly ran FreeBSD at home, but couldn't continue to
> use it because I had limited resources and needed them
> for more essential tasks.
> 

I may have missed some of this thread -- I apologize in advance if that 
is the case -- but have you tried an alternate CD player? Try logging 
into KDE and see if the CD player that comes with KDE will play it for you.

Clint

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Clint Harshaw  <clint at penguinsolutions.org>