Playing CDs

[Crispy Beef]

Well have had a bit of a search around for an answer to this problem but haven't come up with anything yet. The CD is recognised in the drive and the CDDA data is pulled and track names displayed. But when clicking play the drive doesn't spin up.

Have got sound working fine in gnome and can play mp3's etc. without any problems. The CD will mount and read normal data CDs too, so that's cool. For the record I realise that to play audio CDs the cdrom device doesn't need to be mounted.

So far I've only tried using the CD player that comes bundled with Gnome, but I figure it should work and have so far refused to try another prog on general principle (a tad stubborn I know). I have a laptop here with pretty much the same set-up and that plays tracks fine, so it has to be a silly config thing somewhere, but where si the question.

Here's a cut 'n paste from dmesg:

[ckdake]

If you are still having the problem, try using a 2.6 kernel for one, and if the drive does spin up but you don't hear any audio, you may need to connect the cd-rom drive directly to your sound card with one of those little audio cables.
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[Crispy Beef]

Since I posted the original message I have upgraded to a different system and am using the 2.6 kernel, playing CDs and DVDs works fine.

Cheers for the reply.
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[ckdake]

glad to hear it. cool.
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