by OK:
Here is some weird audio cd behavior:
1. I put an audio CD into my cdrom drive
2. in an rxvt window, I type workbone -a
3. workbone comes up, i hit the key to start playing my cd
4. cd rom drive lights up to the color it uses when playing an audio cd,
cd spins, workbone ticks away the time, but NO SOUND!! I can stop,
start, eject cd, etc. Still no sound.
5. Let workbone play cd, then quit workbone (w/o stopping or ejecting
cd) I then get this funky error message a few times:
play(1play(187,223574) stopped #1
msf = 0:2:37 49:40:74
CDROMPLAYMSF: I/O error
stopped #1
then return to the bash shell prompt.
6. WEIRD PART: CD STARTS PLAYING NORMALLY!!! The whole thing plays
straight thru! However, THE CD ROM LIGHTS DONT COME ON AT ALL! The cd
is lightless, but humming away, there is music coming thru perfectly,
and workbone is not running at all (dont see it with top or ps -ef |
grep workbone). Also, I can control the CD volume with xmix.
Hardware Involved:
o Pentium 120
o Creative Labs 8x cd rom drive
o Creative Labs SoundBlaster 16 sound card
o 48 MB RAM
Software Involved:
o Kernel 2.1.17 (also tried 2.0.21)
o Workbone & workman (workman controls cd but just plays loud white
noise in place of music)
o xmix to play with volume
o Xwindows X11 R6
The hardware works perfectly on this same system under Win95.
Does anybody have a clue as to what is wrong with my Audio CD playing
ability?? Everything else about my Linux system functions perfectly
(e.g. RealAudio works great). but this is annoying. I am trying to
migrate away from Winbloze and use LInux completely, but this is a major
obstacle, since playing CDs while I work is important to me. Please
help! Any info appreciated. TIA.
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Ray Lopez, Ph.D. L Comm, Inc.