[1088] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Playing CDs?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (BORG)
Sat Oct 26 10:31:09 1996
Date: Sat, 26 Oct 1996 07:20:17 -0700
From: BORG <vladimip@iceonline.com>
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CC: yanowitz@stereotaxis.wustl.edu
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Michael J. Yanowitz wrote:
>
> Now, that I have built the latest kernel with sound support, I
> wanted to test it out to see how well I can play a CD.
>
> I tried running cdplay and that just core dumps.
>
> I tried running play and that responded with:
> play: /dev/audio: no such device
What's your 'cat /dev/sndstat' saying? What Sound Card
are you using?
> even though, ls -l /dev/audio showed that existed although its
> permissions were strange: crw-rw--w-, owned by root, group sys.
[vlad@borg vlad]$ ls -l /dev/audio
crw-rw-rw- 1 root sys 14, 4 Apr 25 1995 /dev/audio
> Are there any better CD players available as rpm? Or will the
> above programs work by modifying /dev/audio correctly?
Yes, lots. Xmcd (motif-based) is a nice CD player,
another one, with Athena widgets (I forgot its name:
was it 'xplaycd' or something else?). Look through
/contrib dir at RH ftp site, lots of interesting
stuff one can find there... Why do you say permissions
are strange? I am able to play *wav, *au, *midi,
cd-audio and Real Audio (*ra), all as a regular
user. Cdplay also works fine but after I exit it I
still hear a background noice on my speakers. Linux
multitasking is very interested actually: once, playing
a CD, I lowered its volume to zero and forgot it was playing,
then I started playing *midi and *wav simultaneously and
switched CD player volume back... all three were playing
simultaneously through the same speakers, I could even
adjust volume for each of them separately!
> Is tgere an automated way to search the descriptions of all
> uninstalled rpms for a keyword such as 'player'?
[vlad@borg vlad]$ rpm -qa | grep play
bplay-0.95-1
maplay-1.2-2
playmidi-2.3-2
xmplay-1.0-2
[vlad@borg vlad]$ rpm -qa | grep cd
cdp-0.33-3
xmcd-2.0pl2-1
[vlad@borg vlad]$
There also is a package called multimedia-x.x.x.rpm,
I never tried it tho...
90% of RPMs have man pages. Try to look through
all the man pages doing:
apropos CD
apropos play
or
man -k audio
etc..
The only thing I couldn't make play is Doom and fvwm95
audio modules... :( Doom doesn't even work after
my videocard upgrade... Anyone got Doom playing?
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