On Thursday 15 Jan 2009 3:51:32 pm Bob Stia wrote: > On Wednesday 14 January 2009 07:18:48 pm John wrote: > > On Wednesday 14 January 2009 04:19:13 Barry Premeaux wrote: > > > I am running Mandriva 2008.1 on my desktop. It is an AMD Athlon64 > > > 6000+ on an ASUS M2A-VM motherboard. I have a pair of LiteOn DVD > > > drives in it. Both drives read data DVD/CD's without a problem. But, > > > neither will play an audio CD. > > > > > > I also have an external USB DVD/CD drive from Samsung. With it, I can > > > play audio CD's with Kaffeine just fine. > > > > > > Looking at xine engine and the media configuration, it points to the > > > first DVD drive as /dev/cdrom and dev/dvd. Checking both of these > > > under /dev shows them linked to hda as they should be. > > > > > > I am really lost on this one. Do some DVD/CD drives read audio disks > > > and some not? Could it be a firmware issue in the LiteOn drives? > > > > > > One thought just occurred to me. The drives are not identical. The > > > hda is a 20x20 DVD-RW DL Super Allwrite, while hdb is a more generic > > > 52x32x52/16 DVD/CDRW. I'm going to try configuring xine for the second > > > drive. In the mean time, any ideas would be greatly appreciated. > > > > > > Barry > > Hi Barry and John, > > It's been a long long time since I've had to configure audio from CDs but, > has the technology become so advanced that you no longer need the audio > cable from the DVD/CD device to the motherboard? > > Maybe as simple as that. Yup! Nowadays CD output is almost always digital. I think you can still play the CD in analogue mode where you do require that audio cable from the drive to the sound card. I do vaguely remember from my "windows" days that there was an option in software to choose whether to play in analogue or in digital mode. I don't remember more than that though... sorry. :( -- Cheers! Kishore
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