Hey Toomas,
In followup to my prev. reply and your question.
Here is the output of the command: 'grep acd0 /var/run/dmesg.boot'
acd0: CDROM <Compaq CRD-8322B/1.03> at ata0-slave PIO4

Thanks.
PS: Kent, your suggestion is what I have already tried ...I've tried to 'umount /cdrom' it doesn't do anything.... since BSD cannot find it... when I go in /dev I do not see /cdrom there is only acd0, However when I try mkdir cdrom under /dev it says it already exists...? ls -a doesn't show anything. The intelligence behind the O/S is what amazes me...lol


From: Toomas Aas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Michael Neeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Can't play  CD / mount CDROM
Date: Mon, 02 May 2005 23:23:13 +0300

Hi Michael!

I was hoping someone can give you a more definite answer, but it seems no-one knowledgeable has responded, so here are my comments, worth exactly what you paid for them :)

I've been trying since the past couple of days to get my sound back... it all started when I followed the steps from the manual in setting up statically sound drivers for my old Compaq DeskPro EN series...for FreeBSD 5.3. I included the "snd_sbc" driver, since when I kldload snd_driver it comes up as ESS 1869 in my kernel file (MYKERNEL).. I also included the line "device sound" in the MYKERNEL (customized kernel Chp. 7) for some reason it doesn't work when I want to run mpg123...

The above stuff seems roughly correct. That's how I built sound into kernel on my home PC, but I'm not at that PC now so I can't check my kernel config.


What do you mean by "it doesn't work"? Do you get an error message? Or simply nothing happens? In the latter case, check your mixer settings, speaker volume knob and physical connections.

After building sound into kernel, you can also remove the relevant module loading lines from /boot/loader.conf, but I think that even if you left them in it shouldn't prevent sound from working - you would just get an error message saying something to the tune of "file already exists", meaning that the functionality for which you are trying to load the module is already included in the kernel.

...Anyways this is the least of my problems. I now comment the lines: device snd_sbc, device sound recomplie the kernel and keep getting cd9660: device /dev/acd0 Input/Ouput error when I try to mount any of my CDs... (music or data)

You shouldn't try to mount music CDs since they don't contain any filesystem that can be mounted. The error message above is exactly what you get when you try to mount an audio CD. Mounting data CDs should work, though.


Does the command 'grep acd0 /var/run/dmesg.boot' contain any text?

I've tried : mount -t cd9660 /dev/acd0 /cdrom and several other combinations :
mount cd9660 /dev/acd0 /cdrom; mount cd9660; mount_cd9660 /dev/acd0 /cdrom; mount /cdrom - still the same thing...

At least *some* of the above commands should work ;-)

I even tried loading my old kernel (GENERIC) from /boot/kernel.old/kernel (Btw, is this the same as the last recompile of MYKERNE?L... I think I have compiled 3/4 times by now in the hopes that this would work)

Yes, every time you build an install new kernel, the previous kernel is copied to kernel.old and previous kernel.old is wiped out. So it is well possible that you don't even have the original kernel with which things worked on your system any more.


HELP - I'm a newbie... I've got almost everything working with KDE 3.3...and now back to this. I was so happy when I could run cdcontrol from the command line and now I'm :o( frustrated !!

One more thing you could try is to get the GENERIC kernel from e.g. installation CDs and boot with that.


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