On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 07:04:09PM -0800, Lonnie Sutton wrote:
> I am using Woody 3.0 and XMMS 1.2.7 and until recently had both a SCSI
> CD Burner and an IDE CDROM that I used for normally reading data and
> playing CD's, using XMMS. My IDE CDROM recently died, so I thought I
> would just change my fstab to point to the SCSI burner and use that for
> the CD's I wanted to play. While XMMS plays streams OK, such as
> Shoutcast, it does not see the CD player. Just to add to the confusion,
> I tried to play a CD using Gnome's gtcd player. It sees the CD I want to
> listen to, and says it is playing it, but no sound. I made sure that the
> CD burner had group CDROM and I am listed as belonging to that group.
Cd playing rpgorams like xmms-cdread and grip just ask the CD drive to
play an audio CD, and they then start blitting the digital stream (or
send analog audio directly) down a special cable to the sound card.
Have you connected your cd drive to your soundcard?
> As long as I am talking about problems with the CD Burner, I should
> mention that I have not gotten gcombust to work either. It tells me that
> I am not using cdrecord as root, which is true, I am trying to burn a CD
> as a user.
Install sudo, and use it. Or give your user rw access to the generic
SCSI devices (/dev/sg{0.1}) and deal with the consequences (like
possibly not being able to burn at high speeds, since cdrecord can't
alter it's priority or lock pages in RAM and such...it should still work
on a 'reasonable' system)...it sucks either way :/
> I should mention that I can read data from the SCSI burner without any
> problem, so I believe the fstab is OK.
Yep, but cdrecord doesn't know or care about fstab, it uses the 'generic
SCSI' devices instead of particular disks.
> One last piece of information for this mix is that when I try to use
> RealPlayer, which also worked just fine (RealPlayer8) until this recent
> development, I get the error message "Cannot open the audio device.
> Another application may be using it." This even though there is no audio
> device being used that I am aware of.
You can check with 'fuser -v /dev/dsp' and 'fuser -v /dex/mixer', and
it'll list whichever programs have them open.
> Thanks in advance for any advice or help. I have read all the README's
> and FM's I could find.
Hmm, yeah, this sort of stuff is more common folk-knowledge than stuff
that anyone's written down...
/me gets an idea for the weekend
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Rob Weir <rweir@ertius.org> http://ertius.org/
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