On Sun, 23 Oct 2011 15:38:29 -0500 Conrad J. Sabatier articulated: > On Thu, 20 Oct 2011 05:19:02 +0200 > Polytropon <free...@edvax.de> wrote: > > > > What if you use Gnome's CD playing application, or something > > like XMMS with the CD audio plugin? I think your permissions > > are okay so you could make the drive play from your (non-root) > > user account. > > No, it seems that there's a severe level of "brokenness" that has been > introduced into the source tree with regards to CD devices. I've been > exploring this issue on my own system the last couple of days, and am > no closer to arriving at a solution than when I first started. > > None of the CD-related apps I have installed are working. cdcontrol > will read an audio CD OK, it seems, but playback is useless, since, > like most newer machines, I have no direct connection between the CD > drive and the audio device. > > Apps such as kscd, xmcd, etc. report no disc or no device found. grip > (using cdparanoia) will detect an audio disc and even fetch the > correct cddb info, but ripping fails completely. xmms reports "no > appropriate ioctl for device". > > This is progress?
I tried raising this issue over a year ago; however, it never got any traction. -- Jerry ✌ jerry+f...@seibercom.net Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or ignored. Do not CC this poster. Please do not ignore the "Reply-To" header. http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
