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Re: Playing CDs?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ray Curtis)
Mon Oct 28 19:49:07 1996
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 19:19:46 -0500
From: ray@fred.net (Ray Curtis)
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In-Reply-To: <9610282258.AA18413@stereotaxis.wustl.edu>
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Michael J. Yanowitz writes:
> > > 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.
Have you tried the old 'cat /dev/sndstat', that will tell you if the
kernel understands your sound card. Then just 'echo 'sound'
/dev/audio'.
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