hi jim... * jim altieri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-04-07 09:12 +0200]:
> I would like to play audio CD's on my powerbook. It's a G3 500, with > Firewire. A Pismo. I'm running a very up-to-date sarge. > I have a couple of kernels booting, a 2.4.25, and a 2.6.5. In my > 2.4.25, my system has no problem recognizing audio CDs in the drive. > But ALSA isn't working there. In my 2.6.5 kernel, ALSA's working just > peachy, but almost no programs will speak to the CD player. The only > one that does is KAudioCreator - a CD ripping program. It sees the CD, > recognizes it, and finds info about it from CDDB. But every other > program - Beep Media Player, Xine, and XMMS, can't even find the cd player. > My questions: > 1) Is there some kernel option that I'm missing? My .config is below. dunno. > 2) Where is the CD drive located? It's at /dev/cdrom, right? I think > my permissions are set OK on it, and to where it seems to link to at > /dev/hde. I have group disk as the owner, and I am a member of that group. mine is at /dev/hdc. but since kaudiocreator has no problems with it, permissions should be ok (or is it somehow setuid root?) > 3) Why would KAudioCreator see it, and no other program see it? i made the experience that only xmms with the plugin xmms-cdread can make the cd audible. gnome-cd (2.4.1.1), for instance, can see the tracks and downloads cddb info. but when playing, i cannot hear a thing. to answer why others fail, i believe that the audio signal cannot be read directly, because there is no "cable" from the cd-rom drive to the sound chip. so some programs fail to handle that case. at least, i read similar explanations in other list messages when talking about the current alu powerbooks. do not take this explanation for granted, i am no expert in that. :) hth, sebastian -- ::: .O. ::: ..O ::: OOO ::: lynx -source http://www.kodeaffe.de/shensche.pub | gpg --import
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