[Lancaster] Help needed with playing CDs under Debian Lenny

[Ken Hough]

I'm setting up a spare PC with Debian Lenny to work mainly as a server box, 
but just now I'm taking the opportunity to look again at desktop stuff under 
Debian.

All seems to be working well, except for playing CDs.

Under CD Player v2.0.0 and under Sound Juicer v2.22.0, I get approx 1 second 
breaks in sound output. The drive LED indicates that data is being read for 
periods of approx 10 seconds with breaks of about the same period. It looks 
like a lot of data is being read in and is being buffered, but that there is 
a gap between the buffer becoming  empty and new data being read in.

The drive is OK (see below). I have used this machine before (under win XP and 
SUSE Linux) without trouble. The usual appearance of the drive LED is 
repeated short blinks and no interuption of sound output.

I've checked that dma is operating (via 'hparm') and I can play DVDs 100% OK 
via xine. I can also play CDs OK via xine although xine seems to spend some 
time reading the CD before beginning to play. After that I get the expected 
repeated short blinks from the Drive LED, but no interuptions in sound 
output.

Can anyone tell me how to get CD PLayer and Sound Juicer to work properly?

Regards

Ken Hough