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Re: Playing CDs?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael J. Yanowitz)
Sat Oct 26 10:55:24 1996
Date: Sat, 26 Oct 1996 09:52:49 -0500
From: yanowitz@stereotaxis.wustl.edu (Michael J. Yanowitz)
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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?
SoundBlaster. I'll check /dev/sndstat when I get back to my pc.
>
> > 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]$
>
rpm -qa show INSTALLED packages, I wanted to search the UNINSTALLED ones.
> There also is a package called multimedia-x.x.x.rpm,
> I never tried it tho...
>
I tried multimedia and that also didn't work.
> 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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