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Re: Playing CDs?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lawrence Houston)
Mon Oct 28 19:45:21 1996
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 19:15:27 -0500 (EST)
From: Lawrence Houston <houston@boyd.geog.mcgill.ca>
To: "Michael J. Yanowitz" <stereotaxis.wustl.edu!yanowitz@felix.geog.mcgill.ca>
cc: redhat.com!redhat-list@felix.geog.mcgill.ca
In-Reply-To: <9610282258.AA18413@stereotaxis.wustl.edu>
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On Mon, 28 Oct 1996, Michael J. Yanowitz wrote:
> > > Well, I found the program xplaycd, which appears to be what I want
> > > but I still can't get sound to work:
> >
> > This may be your problem. I also could not use xplaycd. I would start
> > xplaycd and it would just exit. The problem was no device /dev/cdrom.
> > I just created a soft link to my scsi cdrom device and now it works.
> >
> > cd /dev
> > ln -s scd0 cdrom
>
> No, that isn't the problem. I can read the CD, just no sound comes
> out. I have an IDE cdrom, so for me it's different. The problem is most
> likely in the kernel, in which I have not been able to successfully
> build with sound support.
> Is there a way to examine a kernel to check if sound is included?
> Can someone who has successfully got Soundblaster16 to work, please
> mail me the kernel Makefile, or even post it here, as I have seen
> a couple of other threads of people having similar problems.
The "analog data path" for Audio CDs is normally a narrow round cable
connecting the CD-ROM Drive directly to the Sound Card and NOT a "digital"
path through the computer itself! Something like xplaycd is ONLY issuing
start/stop/track selection commands to the CD-ROM Drive (and possibly
controlling the volume via the sound card). What is probably required in
your case is modifying the perissions of IDE Device on which Linux has
detecting your CD-ROM Drive. On my system "/dev/cdrom" is a softlink to
"/dev/hdc" (Master on the Secondary IDE Interface), which in turn requires
permissions to be 666 before xplaycd will be allowed to issue the Audio
Play Commands?
Lawrence Houston - (houston@boyd.geog.mcgill.ca)
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