[linux-laptop] Re: cd sound not working on Dell 1200 (wwp)

[Paul Hummer]

Hi-

  I believe there were two people who had a problem with this.  It's actually a really easy fix.  In normal PC systems, there is a 10 cent cable that runs straight from the cd-rom to the sound card.  However, in laptop systems, these cables are not present (because it's not an EIDE cable interface, etc.)  What you will need to do is apt-get install xmms-cdread.  Open xmms -> Preferences (Ctrl+P), and then enable AudioCD Reader [libcdread.so], and disable CD Audio Player [libcdaudio.so]  This will eat up much more of your processor, because the audio has to be processed digitally instead of analogously with the cable, but it's the only way you'll get sound.  I've also noticed that with Ubuntu, it uses some wierd media player to play cd's digitally (at least the Breezy Badger release candidate).  *shrug* I use sarge, so after I installed that plugin, everything worked on my Inspiron 6000.  Let me know if it works.

Thanks, Paul