very possible indeed. I have a sony and this is one of the nasty features.... I managed to get cd audio to work thanks to the linux-sony list or sony vaio village (don't remember now): essentially if I remember well you would need in that case to use xmms with the following in the preferences: enable AudioCD Reader 0.14a [libcdread.so] AND disable CD Audio Player 1.2.7 [libcdaudio.so] My understanding is that one driver dopes the soft link, and not the other.... JOhann -----Original Message----- From: Wolfgang Gill <wolfgang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "'shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx'" <shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: RE: sound on cd player Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 14:00:32 +1000 Reply-To: shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx Is the audio cable between the CD-ROM and audio card connected?? (Just a thought) Wolf -----Original Message----- From: Craig Toenes [mailto:mobyg2@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, 12 June 2003 2:53 PM To: shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: sound on cd player Everything else soundwise is working but I don't get any sound out of the cd player. The gnome volume control is cranked. Any and all suggestions would be helpfull. TIA