Mandrake 10 won't play CD's!

bargeemike · 04-02-2004, 01:52 AM

Here's a weird one. Just installed Mandrake 10, hoping it would solve "lack of driver" problems I had with 9.1 and it has. But...

I can't get it to play CD's. The soundcard (Realtek AC97-VIA VT 8233) seems to be well served by the driver, games, boot-up, all other sounds are loud and clear, but CD's will not play!

Help!

beejayzed · 04-02-2004, 04:48 AM

There is supposed to be a cable from your cdrom. To see if that is your prob. try plugging the speakers into the cdrom drive and see if cdroms play.

bargeemike · 04-02-2004, 06:15 AM

My CD rom drive does not have an external speaker socket. It functions perfectly as a CD player in Windoze (I have a dual-boot system). As it is not a hardware problem and as the soundcard is correctly configured, I assume it has to be something to do with configuring the software CDplayers (none of them work in Mandrake) but I've no idea where to start.

RockmanExe · 04-02-2004, 09:25 AM

i agree about the analog sound cable from your cd rom drive to the mobo. Windows don't need that cable, since the audio signal travels along ide cables. look for it inside your pc chase

Regards

bargeemike · 04-02-2004, 09:57 AM

Ah, got a problem there. My box is a Fujitsu-Siemens (don't make me go into why I have a proprietry box) and it has a nice little seal that voids the warranty if it is broken, so I can't get into it. Also, the sound works fine with SuSE 8.2.

whansard · 04-02-2004, 10:11 AM

check a mixer program and see if the volume is all the way down on the cdrom.

greenzee · 04-02-2004, 11:11 AM

After my own experience playing CD's last night, I agree with whansard. I had almost no sound coming out of my speakers playing an audio CD, but just enough to know it was getting something. I checked the mixer program and the CD audio was on about 1%. I installed Mandrake 10 last Friday, and last night was the first time I've used the CD player and the mixer software. I was surprised to find the default input settings so low.

Good luck.

bargeemike · 04-02-2004, 11:41 AM

Mixer setting at 60%. No sound at all from the speakers.

salparadise · 04-02-2004, 12:52 PM

oh

hmmm
thought i'd check this out,
xine has always played audio cd's fine
but not on 10 seemingly
none of the other apps will play it either

will try adding the audio cable...

beejayzed · 04-02-2004, 05:18 PM

Yup xine can play cds without the cable.

salparadise · 04-03-2004, 12:02 AM

well

on 9.2 it did

on 10 it doesn't

beejayzed · 04-03-2004, 05:09 AM

Ohhh, maybe you should tell Mandrake(bugs.mandrakelinux.com) and they can point you to a solution.
Did you try using a different window manager/Desktop. Did you try using the OSS drivers instead?

salparadise · 04-03-2004, 06:22 AM

haven't tried anything but kde as yet
will give some of the others a go and see what happens

(can't say I'm too bothered as the cd drive makes so much noise it's better to rip with grip and listen to the oggs)

darc26 · 04-04-2004, 01:23 AM

are you using kscd ?? or some other program
I had the same problem... but kscd was the only thing that would not play the cd's.. all other apps would
make sure it is using the right device in the setup window... it usually defaults to /dev/cdrom
I had to change mine to /dev/scd0 to get it play, but now it works great

salparadise · 04-04-2004, 03:47 AM

i created an incident at mandrake expert saying that whereas under mdk9.2 i could play audio cd's in totem and xine, i couldn't under mdk10

i got a reply which told me to go to the totem and xine site where the answer was to be found

so i went and found no answer

this may have something to do with the 2.6.3 kernel

frankly this is rubbish, windows 3.1 played audio cd's but mandrake 10 cannot?

disappointed!

things like this should not fail in a new OS

will go back and post again and see if I can get a helpful answer