Eric W. Holzapfel <e.male@verizon.net> wrote:
> Hello Bartosz, et al.

> I have run alsamixer, but it does not seem obvious how to "mute" or
> unmute the sound card. I see the MASTER, and MASTER mono graphs, and
> can run volume up and down and select "off" by pressing "M", but still
> no luck in terms of sound. The Gnome cd player thinks it can play, and
> the aplay -t wav ding.wav thinks it plays a ding, but my ears hear nothing.

Do you have the cable running from your sound card to the cdrom?
You don't need the cable for windoze but you need it for linux.

cordially, as always,

rm