Optical drive Problems

[Paul Dunn]

I am new to Linux and just installed it on the secondary hard drive on
my computer and I am running into problems with the two optical drives.
The computer is equipped with a CD ROM/DVD ROM combo and a CD RW/DVD
+R combo drive and neither is working properly when I try to play an
audio CD or DVD on them.
When I use the ROM drive with an audio CD, CD Player opens and it
recognizes the name of the CD and the play list. Also, I can hear that
the disk is turning. However, the slide that shows progress of the song
does not move and there is no sound from the speakers. I have tried my
headphones connected directly to the jack on the drive and there is
still no sound.
Using the RW drive, CD Player opens and the album name and song list
appears. The disk is turning and the progress bar moves across the
screen showing the song is playing but there is no sound from the
speakers. With this drive, when I connect the headphones to the drive
jack, there is sound from the CD.
System sounds play perfectly, the sound card check works when I detect
the sound card and I can rip a song from a CD in the RW drive and play
it just fine. Both drives work perfectly in Windows.
Any suggestions would be welcomed.

[Lenard]

Post by Paul Dunn
I am new to Linux and just installed it on the secondary hard drive on
my computer and I am running into problems with the two optical drives.
The computer is equipped with a CD ROM/DVD ROM combo and a CD RW/DVD
+R combo drive and neither is working properly when I try to play an
audio CD or DVD on them.
When I use the ROM drive with an audio CD, CD Player opens and it
recognizes the name of the CD and the play list. Also, I can hear that
the disk is turning. However, the slide that shows progress of the song
does not move and there is no sound from the speakers. I have tried my
headphones connected directly to the jack on the drive and there is
still no sound.
Using the RW drive, CD Player opens and the album name and song list
appears. The disk is turning and the progress bar moves across the
screen showing the song is playing but there is no sound from the
speakers. With this drive, when I connect the headphones to the drive
jack, there is sound from the CD.
System sounds play perfectly, the sound card check works when I detect
the sound card and I can rip a song from a CD in the RW drive and play
it just fine. Both drives work perfectly in Windows. Any suggestions
would be welcomed.

Many system manufactures no longer provide the audio cable (the small 3-4
wire cable) from the CD device to the sound interface, Windows plays the
music digitally and does not need this cable. Maybe this is your problem,
many Linux CD player applications attempt to play audio CD's via this
cable (analog). Try using xmms (it's installed by most Linux distro's)
configured to play the audio CD's digitally.

Start xmms and press the Ctrl+P key combo, select the CD Audio Player
Input plugin and press (click-on) the Configure button. Select the Digital
audio extraction, click on OK. Click on the Apply button followed by the
OK button.

[Paul Dunn]

Post by Lenard

Post by Paul Dunn
I am new to Linux and just installed it on the secondary hard drive on
my computer and I am running into problems with the two optical drives.
The computer is equipped with a CD ROM/DVD ROM combo and a CD RW/DVD
+R combo drive and neither is working properly when I try to play an
audio CD or DVD on them.
When I use the ROM drive with an audio CD, CD Player opens and it
recognizes the name of the CD and the play list. Also, I can hear that
the disk is turning. However, the slide that shows progress of the song
does not move and there is no sound from the speakers. I have tried my
headphones connected directly to the jack on the drive and there is
still no sound.
Using the RW drive, CD Player opens and the album name and song list
appears. The disk is turning and the progress bar moves across the
screen showing the song is playing but there is no sound from the
speakers. With this drive, when I connect the headphones to the drive
jack, there is sound from the CD.
System sounds play perfectly, the sound card check works when I detect
the sound card and I can rip a song from a CD in the RW drive and play
it just fine. Both drives work perfectly in Windows. Any suggestions
would be welcomed.

Many system manufactures no longer provide the audio cable (the small 3-4
wire cable) from the CD device to the sound interface, Windows plays the
music digitally and does not need this cable. Maybe this is your problem,
many Linux CD player applications attempt to play audio CD's via this
cable (analog). Try using xmms (it's installed by most Linux distro's)
configured to play the audio CD's digitally.
Start xmms and press the Ctrl+P key combo, select the CD Audio Player
Input plugin and press (click-on) the Configure button. Select the Digital
audio extraction, click on OK. Click on the Apply button followed by the
OK button.

I installed xmms and set it for digital audio extraction and then I
clicked on the "Check Drive" button and got the following message:

"Device /dev/cdrom OK
Disc has 10 tracks
Total length 43:36
Digital audio extraction test: OK

Failed to check directory /mnt/cdrom
Error: No such file or directory"

How do I remedy this?

Also, I checked inside the computer and neither drive has an audio cable
from the device to the sound card. My computer is a Dell 8300 desktop
and I am running Fedora Core 3 that I downloaded from the Fedora site.
Could I now install a cable from the ROM drive to the card without
affecting anything else?