[CentOS] Jumping from FC2

Mike McCarty Mike.McCarty at sbcglobal.net
Mon Feb 26 06:41:11 UTC 2007


Jay Leafey wrote:
> Lanny Marcus wrote:
> 
>> As a Desktop user, the only "issue" I have with CentOS 4.4 is that
>> Digital Audio (audio from music Cd's, via the EIDE ribbon cables from
>> the DVD-ROM and CD-RW drives) does not work while using CentOS 4.4 and
>> it does work, when using MS Windows XP. I hope that will change with the
>> Kernel in CentOS 5.0!
> 
> 
> I may be wrong, but I think this has more to do with the CD player 
> application you are using rather than the kernel.  Like you I was quite 
> annoyed to find the CD Player (Gnome-CD) could control the CD but didn't 
> provide any audio on my machine since I did not have the analog audio 
> cable installed on my machine.  I later started using xmms instead 
> because it DOES do digital audio using just the IDE cable.

I thought this was an issue with proprietary licensing.

Anyway, it's topic drift after this point. I don't own any
music CDs and don't plan ever to. If I should ever get a music
CD, I wouldn't want to play it on my computer, anyway.

Mike
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