-- Mike Pfleger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Tuesday, 01 October 2002, 12:03 PM -0700): > * Matthew Weier O'Phinney ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > 2. In XMMS, do a CTRL-L (or use the menu to specify a "Location"), > > and type "/cdrom" > > and that's it. > > Do you mean /dev/cdrom, or the mount-point that you'd normally use for > mounting a data CD? In my case, my fstab aliases /cdrom (the mount point) to /dev/cdrom (the device); I can actually specify either for a location to XMMS and get it to work.
> If I point it to /dev/cdrom, it figures out all of > the track information, and the counter runs, as though it were playing > the CD, but the transport doesn't seem to do anything with the CD, and > there's nothing but a faint clicking for the first two seconds of any > track. Hmmm... Wierd. It doesn't continue to spin? > It's SCSI drive, and all of the relevant SCSI modules are > loaded into the kernel, and I can mount and access data CDs till the > cows come home. The drive I use is mapped via ide-scsi, and this works fine. I'm wondering... do you have a cable that connects the cd audio output to the soundcard? 'Cause I think you need this for it to work properly. Wait, though -- did you say you *could* listen to CDs with OSS, though? If so, something else is going on... not sure what. > > What window manager are you using? Does it load a sound system daemon? I > > ask, because I had problems in KDE at one point on my wife's computer: > > it was loading artsd, and I didn't have XMMS configured to use artsd -- > > and hence it wouldn't play sound. When she had me switch her to > > blackbox, XMMS worked fine. > > I'm using fluxbox, so essentially I'm using blackbox, I guess. I asked simply to see if the WM was loading a sound daemon -- it's not, if you're using fluxbox. > > Also, why do you want to use ESD? > > Other applications, like Gaim, want to use ESD, and can't seem to put > anything out to the real world as audio information. Ah. Okay. That makes sense. I use Gaim as well -- but since I don't run ESD and don't care if there's sound output, I never realized it had sound! > It seems that ESD > always worked in the past. Perhaps it's time to roll a 2.4.x kernel > and just go the ALSA route? Does ALSA even support an ES1371 soundcard > is another question, I suppose... That's what's on my wife's computer, and I did end up using ALSA. It wasn't exactly trivial to set up -- and I can't remember right now how I did it -- but it IS possible! (said while listening to David Bowie off her computer...) Good luck! Matthew -- Matthew Weier O'Phinney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]