Re: [Sound] Re: No sound on speakers from and audio CD.

[Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2002-10-23 at 13:14, Roman M Zaritski wrote:
> CD's play fine without such a cable under Windows XP.
> RedHat support people have just informed me that under
> Linux I DO need the cable.

There are Linux tools which will do this but the normal CD player tools
use the analogue interface. The other way to play CD's is to rip the CD
data and play it - that requires wasting much more cpu power primarily
so you can do pretty graphic equalizers