On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 08:59:41AM -0500, Mark T. Valites wrote: > Today I stuck in an audio cd for the first time & wasn't able to > play it. I exited out E & gnome & logged back in & got an error > message about not having permission to open /dev/mixer. I can get > the cd to start spinning fine & the second counter to tick on fine > in any cd playing app, but no sound comes out. No luck as root > either. I'd like to hear this confirmed from other sources, but I think the problem is that the audio output on the drive is not connected to the sound hardware on the motherboard. It appears that the cs4231 chipset supports this, but I have never seen a stock Sun connected this way, and I've had trouble even finding motherboard jacks for it (SS5, U1, U10). You probably could get XMMS to play -- I think there's an option to extract the digital audio data and dump it to the sound hardware (effectively, ripping it to play it.) I gave up and just ripped all my CD's to MP3's, which is more flexible anyway. > Mark T. Valites > Unix Systems Analyst > 1 College Circle - 124b1 South Hall > SUNY Geneseo > Geneseo, NY 14454 > 585-245-5577 > 585-259-3471 (Cell) > 585-245-5579 (Fax) Bold man, putting all that in a public posting. :-) But since you did, "Howdy, neighbor!" -- I'm in Rochester. Later, Rob.
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