-- 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
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