well
i just put an audio cd in, opened xmms
nothing

but

in the xmms preferences I changed the audio cd options in Configure CD Audio plugin to "digital audio extraction" and it's now playing just fine

ha

lovely

never managed to get xmms to play audio cd's before

still won't play in xine though

Now this gets weirder.

Tried your suggestion about changing to digital audio extraction in audio CD options. The only result was that xmms disappears every time I hit the "play" button!

I think that's an issue with the command used to launch it in the menu. Change it to plain "xmms" instead of the other one. That's what fixed it for me.

this is exactly my same experience. i can't just 'go buy a cable' as many suggested as i'm using a laptop.

for the moment I am forced to play cds with xmms but i hope to find another answer soon ...

at this rate there will be a new expression passing into the english language

"doing a mandrake"

releasing a product that can't do stuff that the previous version could and then keeping silent as to why

that happens ito me if I had xmms configured to use the wrong OUTPUT plugin.
best choice for me is to tell xmms to use arts (when i'm running under kde).

arts just perpetrates the gui dissapearing trick.

you might be able to use the version of xine or xmms from the previous mandrake.

I'll give it a try, but nothing seems to work. Maybe it'll have to be the cable, but it leaves me unimpressed with an otherwise impressive distro.

I tried Fedora Core2 test2 (also with a 2.6.x kernel ) and am having the same issue: I had to configure xmms for digital extraction

I've tried the digital extraction trick, but, depending on the output plugin, it either doesn't play, or just disappears when I hit the "play" button. xine doesn't work. I can't get the alsa gui to work either, just keeps telling me it can't find some file or other. I've loaded everything with alsa in it's title from Mandrake, so your guess is as good as mine.

I'm thinking of treating myself to a nervous breakdown.

Did you try disabling ARTS and using the output plugin that makes it disappear? That solved it for me.

Success at last! Using xmms, (KsCD still not functioning, though).

Set Kmix as follows on output switched everything off exept master, master mono and PCM. On advanced, switched everything off exept input sources (don't know how necessary this was). On xmms set cd audioplayer configuration to digital audio extraction and OSS mixer. Set Output plugin to ALSA 1.2.9. Switched on cd in Alsa mixer GUI (mind you, I had to reload the OS to get THAT working!) and now I can play cd's!

However, I should not have to play silly buggers to get a pretty basic function of any OS up and running. I really REALLY hope that Mandrake get it sorted before the release of the stable version of 10. I like this version of the OS very much indeed and hope I don't have to muck around like this when the "official" release appears.

A big thank you to everyone who has posted suggestions on this thread. Between you all, you have solved a most irritating problem!

I installed mdk10CE about 4 times, lots problems, including could not read from either cd drive.
The last tkime I installed, I selected the options to install the 2.4.25 kernel, and solved most of the problems. Can read cds, play music etc. Music required that I poke "mute" buttons in kmix until the constant squeal stopped.
Problem now is how ti install NVIDIA driver so that tuxracer will work.

I got kcds working but had to plug in the audio cable to do so. Took me a while to work it out though.