> On 11/24/20 3:29 PM, deloptes via tde-users wrote: > > Edward via tde-users wrote: > > > >> I have not yet put the card in, but had a thought... The sound cards > >> from that era, have a jack where an audio cable connected it to the > >> CD/DVD drive. Where the card would override the on-board audio once > >> installed, would that audio cable still be necessary today, or would > >> today's motherboards know to route the audio from the CD/DVD through the > >> motherboard, directly to the sound card? I haven't actually looked at > >> the back of the DVD drive to see if it even has that connection on it. > >> That system is from 2009. > > I do not think modern drives have it - you can easily diagnose it by > > observing the front panel of the drive - if it has an audio jack, it can > > independently play audio. > > > > Applications such as kscd would work with the data being read from the > > drive. I do not know why Kate would say kscd needs an audio cable. > > I guess kscd is able to control the drive (play/pause etc.), so that if you > > have a CD player you could just tell it play and listen on the audio jack > > of the player. However it should be working as a player too - playing the > > cdrom. Last time I tried few months ago it worked nicely. > > The drive does not have an audio jack on the front. > > ____________________________________________________ kscd will control the hardware but it needs a optical drive to audio card audio cable to play the output. You can test it yourself. I think Ed was talking about the back cable not the audio out front panel port some optical drive had. Kate ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
