[CLUE-Tech] hp sound card under mandrake

[Angelo Bertolli]

On Mon, 24 May 2004, James LaRue wrote:

> I have an HP Pavilion A520n, with an nvidia nforce2 sound card. I'm
> trying to run it under Mandrake Community 10 -- and find that I get no
> sound directly from the CD driver. I CAN rip a track, then play it under
> xmms. Googling on it, I found that someone said all you had to do is run
> a cable from thbe cd drive to the sound card -- which seems mighty
> backward. Anybody know a software solution?

AFAIK this is pretty standard.  You SHOULD have a wire that runs from the
CDROM directly to the soundcard.  The CDROM knows how to play music--the
standard way of playing music via CD is to have it play directly to the
soundcard--not use the CPU.

Angelo