On Tue, 7 Jul 1998, Mike Fieschko wrote:
The cable is connected. I will check again to see if the connection is tight.
But if the connection was bad, wouldn't a cat to /dev/audio produce no sound? Likewise no sound, using Real Audio's rvplayer?
No. There should be three cables to the back of the cd-rom (if it is internal) A power cable, a (scsi or ide) cable and an audio cable. The audio cable only carries an analog signal from the cd-rom directly to the amplifier portion of the sound card. The sound card does not need to be supported for the cd-rom to play music.
I do suspect a hardware problem, since the symptoms (all sound is except playing a CD) are the same in Win 3.11.
The CD-ROM is an NEC scsi model 222.
If this is an external NEC cd-rom, there should be RCA outputs on the back. Those would have to go to speakers or an amplifier.
Is there a particular audio cable to use (a different one than for IDE CD-ROMs) for a scsi CD-ROM?
An audio cable is simply three wires (Left signal), (Right signal), and ground. Most cdroms and sound cards can use an MPC II audio cable. (Unless the cdrom is external... see above) - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e