RE: workman and sound

[Shaleh <shaleh@livenet.net>]

On 08-Feb-99 Richard Hall wrote:
> I just installed workman so that I can listen to tunes, but it ain't
> working.  Sound works, ie, I can do 'cat file.au > /dev/audio' and hear
> sound.  Also, workman thinks that it is playing the CD.  I can watch the
> time elapse, and it knows how many tracks are on the disk.  The only
> problem is that nothing is coming out of the speakers.  I can hear music
> by plugging headphones into the CD drive.
> 
> So which audio device is workman using?  I figure that I just need to
> change permissions somewhere, but I'm not sure where.
> 

Or to ask a dumb question -- does CD audio work in some other app or OS?  For
the Cd to send sound to the computer, a cable running from the cdrom drive to
the sound card must exist and be connected to the right plug on the sound card.