From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 12 00:27:28 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4396516A4CE for ; Fri, 12 Nov 2004 00:27:28 +0000 (GMT) Received: from web41713.mail.yahoo.com (web41713.mail.yahoo.com [66.218.93.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2BE9543D41 for ; Fri, 12 Nov 2004 00:27:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from eodyna@yahoo.com.au) Received: (qmail 95546 invoked by uid 60001); 12 Nov 2004 00:27:28 -0000 Message-ID: <20041112002727.95544.qmail@web41713.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [203.8.18.100] by web41713.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Fri, 12 Nov 2004 11:27:27 EST Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 11:27:27 +1100 (EST) From: eodyna To: Danny MacMillan , jason In-Reply-To: <20041111194957.GA874@procyon.nekulturny.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org cc: eodyna Subject: Re: problems with sound :[ X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 00:27:28 -0000 Hi all thank-you ohh so much for your help thus far! It was indeed that little cable. When i looked it didn't exist :) [not very good with hardware] i will need to buy one and try that out! thank-you so much. there are very knowledgable and talented people here. arigatou! and thanks for the explanation danny! --ams --- Danny MacMillan wrote: > On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 08:56:54AM -0700, jason > wrote: > > Danny MacMillan wrote: > > >On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 11:34:14PM -0700, eodyna > wrote: > > > >hi everyone, > > > > > > > >I can play mp3's :) but i cant seam to be able > to play > > > >cd's. > > > > > > > >any ideas? > > > > > > > >thanks again. > > > > > > It seems likely that the tiny analog or digital > cable > > > between your sound card and your CD-ROM drive is > not > > > connected. > > > > My cds play just fine without that cable. > > There are two ways sound gets from the CD to the > sound card. > It can go directly from the CD to the sound card > through the > analog or digital cable connecting the two. Or it > can be > read from the CD as data via the IDE interface and > channeled > to the sound card through the system bus in the same > way as > MP3s or any other digital sound information. How > the sound > actually travels is a function of what application > is used > to play the sound. The former is a more efficient > use of > system resources. > > Since the original poster can play MP3s but not CDs, > there > are two probable candidates for failure. The first > and most > likely is that the CD-ROM and sound card are not > connected > by that little cable, and that the original poster > is using > an application that just tells the CD-ROM drive to > start > playing instead of actually reading the music from > the CD. > The other and less likely is that the CD-ROM is not > able to > read the CD at all. > > -- > Danny > Find local movie times and trailers on Yahoo! Movies. http://au.movies.yahoo.com