cd playing jumps and skips tracks

[Archibald]

I'm having problems playing cd's and DVD's in SUSe 9.1 . When playing a cd the sound disappears after 10to 20 seconds, sometimes it jumps a track and sometimes it starts playing a little later in the song. Don't know if this is a problem with the player or the soundcard, but I'm guessing the soundcard. It is properly installed and is working fine. Soundbuffer is set to max, and it plays mp3's and divx movies alright. I've tried no dma, dma and dma/16, with no different result. I'm having no trouble accessing data cd's.
Can anyone give me a hint on what is going on?

[bwkaz]

Which kernel version?

Anything in SuSE's online help or manuals?

Are you sure the CD's OK? Not scratched or anything like that? (Hey, you never know -- I had the same type of problem where a few CDs would skip whenever they were warm. It turns out that they were both scratched on the bottom. A CD polisher from 3M ended up taking the scratches out, IIRC.)

[Archibald]

yes, there must have been a problem with individual cd's. I just had the bad luck of trying several with problems, therefore thinking ut was a general fault somewhere.

Thanks for the help.