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 > I've installed the alsa drivers for the CMI8330.

> > I can play *.au e *.wav files, but I can't play
> > audio CD's.
> >
> > Can you play audio CD's.

Jaroslav Kysela <perex@jcu.cz> wrote:

>I'm sorry, this chip isn't fully supported due to lacking docs..


David Mansell wrote:

> Actually playing audio CDs is part of the CD-ROM drivers rather
> than the sound driver.  Does the audio CD play at all (e.g. can you
> hear sound through the headphone socket on the front?)

> ALSA tends to use hardware muting so you might not be able to

> hear the CD even though it is actually working, you need a mixer
> which understands ALSA (e.g. alsamixer which is available from
> the same site as ALSA itself) to unmute the relevant channels,
> OSS mixers (e.g. xmix) won't be able to do this.
>

I use the alsamixer and I use aplay to play *.au, *.wav, and so on.
The sound is very good. When I using (by example) the workman,
I set the device to /dev/hdd (where my CD-ROM is). Then the
workman play the CD, there is no signal in the line out of the
back, but if I plug in the front of the CD-drive, I can heart the
music normally. I can also change the track of the CD and the
other functions of the workman.


