I have built a new 1.6.2_STABLE kernel in which I have enabled awacs and 
audio.
Now, I get noise, not very loud, but very constant, on the iMac 
speakers. However that's all I seem to get, most of the time. When I try 
to play a .wav file (containing the entirety of Dark Side of the Moon, 
if that matters), I get nothing. Well, I still get the noise, at least.

I have found one file, nw-16.zip, in a sound archive 
(http://www.filelibrary.com/Contents/Multi-Platform/61/44.html), which 
contains a .WAV file that actually plays all right.
A few other files obtained from the same place give:
audioplay: failed to set audio info: Invalid argument

The final objective of course is to play an Audio CD. However, at the 
moment, cdplay just doesn't, probably for the same reason that other 
sound files won't play.

Does anyone have some sound advice to share, or should I resort to 
waving poultry?
(Please pardon puns.)

-Lasse