Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1999 21:07:14 +1000 From: Greg Black <gjb@acm.org> To: "K. Marsh" <durang@u.washington.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Audio CD's won't play through the sound card. Message-ID: <19990116110714.16523.qmail@alice.gba.oz.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.A41.4.05.9901151422370.34788-100000@goodall2.u.washington.edu> of Fri, 15 Jan 1999 14:24:22 PST References: <Pine.A41.4.05.9901151422370.34788-100000@goodall2.u.washington.edu>
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> > I have recently recompiled my kernel with support for my sound card (sb16). > > It seems to work (at least I was able to hear the little .au file that > > I redirected to /dev/audio), but I still can't get the CDs to play > > through the sound card. > > There is a separate cable used to connect your CD drive to your sound card > for this purpose. I've seen several machines where the cable was missing. > It's a thin, round, black or grey cable about the size of a mouse's. I'll > bet yours is missing. My problem is slightly different -- the CDs play fine if I plug the speaker cable into the jack on the front of the CD drive, but if I plug it into the SB, I get mono sound from one speaker only -- this happens on several sound cards, so it's not a faulty card. Any ideas? -- Greg Black <gjb@acm.org> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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