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by **McKenney O. Spence** » Fri, 02 May 1997 04:00:00

I am a newbie so please be patient. I 'm unable to play Audio CD's on
RedHat 4.1 using XplayCD. Whenever I try to launch this app, it fails to
recognize that an Audio CD has been inserted. I can mount and umount any
data CD with mount iso9660 -t /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom, without any problems.
I have installed and configured OSS drivers for the soundblaster 16 and I
can play sound. So I know that I have sound capabilties. This is a SCSI
CDrom (NEC 84-1) attached to a 2940w Adaptec controller with 2 SCSI
harddisk attached also. Any help would be surely appreciated.
Thanks

Kenney

by **zero** » Sun, 11 May 1997 04:00:00

> I am a newbie so please be patient. I 'm unable to play Audio CD's on
> RedHat 4.1 using XplayCD. Whenever I try to launch this app, it fails to
> recognize that an Audio CD has been inserted. I can mount and umount any
> data CD with mount iso9660 -t /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom, without any problems.
> I have installed and configured OSS drivers for the soundblaster 16 and I
> can play sound. So I know that I have sound capabilties. This is a SCSI
> CDrom (NEC 84-1) attached to a 2940w Adaptec controller with 2 SCSI
> harddisk attached also. Any help would be surely appreciated.
> Thanks

> Kenney

It should work just make sure /dev/cdrom is not mounted while using
xplaycd

by **Harry Blais** » Sun, 11 May 1997 04:00:00

> > I am a newbie so please be patient. I 'm unable to play Audio CD's on
> > RedHat 4.1 using XplayCD. Whenever I try to launch this app, it fails to
> > recognize that an Audio CD has been inserted. I can mount and umount any
> > data CD with mount iso9660 -t /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom, without any problems.
> > I have installed and configured OSS drivers for the soundblaster 16 and I
> > can play sound. So I know that I have sound capabilties. This is a SCSI
> > CDrom (NEC 84-1) attached to a 2940w Adaptec controller with 2 SCSI
> > harddisk attached also. Any help would be surely appreciated.
> > Thanks

> > Kenney
> It should work just make sure /dev/cdrom is not mounted while using
> xplaycd

Or you might try making a symbolic link between /dev/sdc0 (or whatever
your drive is configured for) to /dev/cdrom. For example:
ln -s /dev/sdc0 /dev/cdrom

In any case, make sure your cdrom is not mounted.

Cheers,

Harry.

by **Rod Smi** » Mon, 12 May 1997 04:00:00

Quote:>I am a newbie so please be patient. I 'm unable to play Audio CD's on
>RedHat 4.1 using XplayCD. Whenever I try to launch this app, it fails to
>recognize that an Audio CD has been inserted. I can mount and umount any
>data CD with mount iso9660 -t /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom, without any problems.
>I have installed and configured OSS drivers for the soundblaster 16 and I
>can play sound. So I know that I have sound capabilties. This is a SCSI
>CDrom (NEC 84-1) attached to a 2940w Adaptec controller with 2 SCSI
>harddisk attached also. Any help would be surely appreciated.

I also have problems with xplaycd from Red Hat 4.0 or 4.1 (the same
problem with both), but with very different hardware. I have SCSI hard
drives, but a Creative Labs 8x ATAPI CD-ROM drive, which Linux recognizes
fine for data CDs. I've got a Gravis UltraSound PnP with the UltraSound
project drivers (version 1.60a), and it works fine for playing .WAV and
MIDI files. I have no problems playing audio CDs on this hardware from
OS/2. A rough description of the problem under Linux matches what you
say, but I've more details that might or might not match yours.
Specifically, if I launch xplaycd and then insert an audio CD, xplaycd
won't recognize that anything's been inserted. If, OTOH, I insert an
audio CD and then launch xplaycd, the program recognizes that a CD is in
the drive, but an attempt to play it shows drive activity (the drive's
LED comes on), but no sound through the system's speakers or headphones
attached to the drive (usually; for at least one CD on at least one
occasion, it did work correctly right away). If I then hit the stop
button, wait for the LED on the drive to go out, and hit the play button,
the CD will usually play correctly, so long as I don't try to manually
change tracks. Sometimes this won't work, though, and xplaycd will seem
to have hung pretty badly (a kill command won't work, but selecting
"destroy" from the player's fvwm menu will kill it). On a second launch
with the same audio CD, though, it'll work.

Up until seeing your post, I'd assumed that this was a quirky
incompatibility between this CD-ROM drive and xplaycd, but now I wonder.
I wish I had an answer, but I don't. Does anybody know of any other
X-based audio CD players?

--
Rod Smith Author of:

http://php.indiana.edu/~rodsmith "OS/2 Soundcard Summary"
NOTE: Remove "uceprotect" from address to e-mail me

by **Bruce Bigb** » Wed, 14 May 1997 04:00:00

> >I am a newbie so please be patient. I 'm unable to play Audio CD's on
> >RedHat 4.1 using XplayCD. Whenever I try to launch this app, it fails to
> >recognize that an Audio CD has been inserted. I can mount and umount any
> >data CD with mount iso9660 -t /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom, without any problems.
> >I have installed and configured OSS drivers for the soundblaster 16 and I
> >can play sound. So I know that I have sound capabilties. This is a SCSI
> >CDrom (NEC 84-1) attached to a 2940w Adaptec controller with 2 SCSI
> >harddisk attached also. Any help would be surely appreciated.

> I also have problems with xplaycd from Red Hat 4.0 or 4.1 (the same
> problem with both), but with very different hardware.
[snip]
> Up until seeing your post, I'd assumed that this was a quirky
> incompatibility between this CD-ROM drive and xplaycd, but now I wonder.
> I wish I had an answer, but I don't. Does anybody know of any other
> X-based audio CD players?

> --
> Rod Smith Author of:

> http://php.indiana.edu/~rodsmith "OS/2 Soundcard Summary"
> NOTE: Remove "uceprotect" from address to e-mail me

I'm not at my Linux machine, now. However, you have to tell the xplaycd
application the raw device name of your CD-ROM device. You do this by
modifying the X resource file for the application. I think that you
might find it in /usr/lib/X11/lib/apps... or something like that. You
will find a bunch of application-specific resource files. Find the one
which begins with xplaycd. I wish I could tell you exactly what to do,
but I am not in front of my Linux box, right now. :-( Also, you can
get instructions on how to configure xplaycd via its man page.

Good luck!
--
Bruce W. Bigby
Technical Specialist/Software Engineer
Xerox Corporation, 435 West Commercial St, East Rochester, NY 14445

by **David P. Hu** » Fri, 16 May 1997 04:00:00

>>I am a newbie so please be patient. I 'm unable to play Audio CD's on
>>RedHat 4.1 using XplayCD. Whenever I try to launch this app, it fails to
>>recognize that an Audio CD has been inserted.

I had the same problem, but with an IDE CD-ROM drive. Here's what fixed it:

1) Make a symbolic link (ln -s) from the CD-ROM device (in my case,
/dev/hdc) to /dev/cdrom.

2) Check file permissions on /dev/cdrom. I had to do a chmod 666.

Sometimes it still won't notice that I've changed CDs (claims "no disk" in
drive), but hitting the "play" button fixes that...

Regards,

David Huff
Texas Instruments, Inc.

by **Macab** » Fri, 16 May 1997 04:00:00

>> >I 'm unable to play Audio CD's on
>> >RedHat 4.1 using XplayCD.

I think the symbolic link '/dev/cdrom' is not created by default when
installing RH 4.1. Otherwise the *.rpm for xplaycd and xmixer should work.
'ln -s /dev/<cd_device> /dev/cdrom' may fix it.

by **Brian Kno** » Tue, 03 Jun 1997 04:00:00

> I am a newbie so please be patient. I 'm unable to play Audio CD's
> on
> RedHat 4.1 using XplayCD. Whenever I try to launch this app, it
> fails to
> recognize that an Audio CD has been inserted. I can mount and
> umount any
> data CD with mount iso9660 -t /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom, without any
> problems.
> I have installed and configured OSS drivers for the soundblaster 16
> and I
> can play sound. So I know that I have sound capabilties. This is a
> SCSI
> CDrom (NEC 84-1) attached to a 2940w Adaptec controller with 2 SCSI
> harddisk attached also. Any help would be surely appreciated.
> Thanks

> Kenney

If I am remembering correctly from my last PC, xplayCD does not support
SCSI cd's...I believe that I downloaded another cd player to use my SCSI
cd rom. I may be remembering this wrong, it's been awhile and I have
EIDE drives now (ugh...miss my SCSIs!)

by **Richard Ta** » Tue, 03 Jun 1997 04:00:00

Try this:

Create a symbolic link for /dev/cdrom to /dev/scd0. chmod +r /dev/scd0
so everyone can read. Then try "xplaycd"

> > I am a newbie so please be patient. I 'm unable to play Audio CD's
> > on
> > RedHat 4.1 using XplayCD. Whenever I try to launch this app, it
> > fails to
> > recognize that an Audio CD has been inserted. I can mount and
> > umount any
> > data CD with mount iso9660 -t /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom, without any
> > problems.
> > I have installed and configured OSS drivers for the soundblaster 16
> > and I
> > can play sound. So I know that I have sound capabilties. This is a

> > SCSI
> > CDrom (NEC 84-1) attached to a 2940w Adaptec controller with 2 SCSI
> > harddisk attached also. Any help would be surely appreciated.
> > Thanks

> > Kenney

> If I am remembering correctly from my last PC, xplayCD does not
> support
> SCSI cd's...I believe that I downloaded another cd player to use my
> SCSI
> cd rom. I may be remembering this wrong, it's been awhile and I have
> EIDE drives now (ugh...miss my SCSIs!)

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