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

[wwp]

Hello Paul,


On Tue, 11 Oct 2005 20:24:07 -0600 Paul Hummer <paul at eventuallyanyway.com> wrote:

> 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.

Correct, I've also found that using digital audio extraction mode instead of
direct analog mode works, whatever the xmms plugin I use (cdread or cdaudio),
or even w/ other players like bmp or kscd).

I still couldn't determine if this un-ability to read in direct analog mode
wasn't coming from the fact that the CD player is controlled by a SATA ctrl
(Dell Latitude D810) and that the kernel I use lacks of support for it, as I
never faced such issue w/ PATA things w/ my previous Dell Inspiron 8200.


Regards,

-- 
wwp