From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 16 11:01:12 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA10443 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 16 Jan 1999 11:01:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alice.gba.oz.au (gba-254.tmx.com.au [203.9.155.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA10437 for ; Sat, 16 Jan 1999 11:01:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gjb@acm.org) Received: (qmail 16524 invoked by uid 1001); 16 Jan 1999 11:07:15 -0000 Message-ID: <19990116110714.16523.qmail@alice.gba.oz.au> X-Posted-By: GBA-Post 1.03 20-Sep-1998 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 5A91 6942 8CEA 9DAB B95B C249 1CE1 493B 2B5A CE30 Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1999 21:07:14 +1000 From: Greg Black To: "K. Marsh" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Audio CD's won't play through the sound card. References: In-reply-to: of Fri, 15 Jan 1999 14:24:22 PST Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message