cd playing problems in red hat 8.0

I'm using red hat 8. 0 now and my sound card is working perfectly fine but when i insert a music cd i to my drive and the audio player pops up and starts, no sound come out. could any1 help me here?.

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I'm using red hat 8.0 now and my sound card is working perfectly fine but when i insert a music cd i to my drive and the audio player pops up and starts, no sound come out. could any1 help me here?

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Hmm. Maybe it isn't mounting the cd? Try mounting the cd before playing. As root go:
 
mount /mnt/cdrom [enter]
 
or:
 
mount /mnt/cdrom1
 
 
Then try the cd player.

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the cd mounts but when the cd player auto starts to play the disc, no sound comes out. aside from that , all else works fine.

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i've just installed RH9 on two machines and this happened to me on one machine. i used the sound card detector and the card was working fine.. tried a different cd, it malfunctioned.. went back to the first cd.. worked fine from then on. good luck
 
richo