playing audio CDs on FC4

[Gerhard Magnus]

On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 19:14 -0800, John Wendel wrote:
> Gerhard Magnus wrote:
> >>	I'm running FC4 with a KDE desktop on a new Pentium 4 dual
> >>booting with Windows XP.  Under Windows I can play and rip CDs on the
> >>DVD drive using Windows Media Player without anything unusual happening.
> >>(I mention this only to eliminate the obvious hardware issues.)
> >>	With FC4 the system recognizes my soundcard:
> >>	Vendor: Intel
> >>	Model: Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/RW/FRW (ICH6 Family) High
> >>Definition Audio Controller
> >>	Module: snd-hda-intel
> >>and plays the usual test tune.
> >>	The mixer KMix shows all the outputs turned on with 75% volume
> >>(except for PCM which doesn't seem to have a mute function.)
> >>	The CD players xmms and KsCD both appear to be playing from the
> >>drive but I can't get any sound.
> >  
> >>Have you plugged the cd drive into the input on the sound card. Windows
> >>can play music without this cable, but I'm not sure if Linux can. 
> > 
> > OK, I popped the case.  There's no soundcard in the PCA slots so it must
> > be on the motherboard somewhere....  I don't have a clue where to
> > connect that CD cable.  My dealer said this machine used a newer
> > architecture but it can't be that new!  Are there any linux settings or
> > linux cd-playing software that get around this problem?  
> > 
> 
> XMMS can play a CD using the digital interface.
> 
> The menu selection is well hidden.
> 
> XMMS -> options -> preferences -> input plugins -> cd audio player -> 
> configure -> digital audio extraction.
> 
> KSCD also has a digital option, but it doesn't work for me.

This works!  Thanks!