[wplug] My silent cd player

[J Aaron Farr]

On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 14:03, Ivan Jager wrote:
> On 2002.10.22 11:40 John Harrold wrote:
> > Sometime in October J Aaron Farr assaulted the keyboard and produced:
> > 
> > | Hello.
> > | 
> > | I had this problem before on another system.  Never did fix it because
> > | it wasn't really important then.  My cd player doesn't play. ...
> > 
> > humm... to me it sounds like the cd audio channel is either turned all the
> > way down or it has been muted. have you checked your mixer (kmix for
> > example) and made sure the channel is enabled (the green dot under the
> > disk)? sorry if this seems too basic. 
> 
> Do you have the little audio cable connecting the CD-ROM drive to your sound card? 
> If you are missing that, many players will play, but you won't hear anything. 
> Those would be the players that just tell the drive to play and don't
> worry about anything.
> 

Okay, I finally had a moment to open up my case and see about that cable
and sure enough, it looks like I don't have any cable running from the
CD-ROM drive to the Sound Card.  So what are those cables called and
anyone know where I can get one?

(or know of another solution?)

jaaron