Date: Tue, 9 Jun 1998 18:31:16 -0600 (MDT) From: Brett Taylor <brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu> To: Troy Thompson <troy@c2.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: audio/cdplayer/display/colors Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980609181341.26664B-100000@peloton.physics.montana.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.980609154829.7362B-100000@gabber.c2.net>
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Howdy, > I'm trying (rather futily) to get my cd-rom player to play my cds. I believe there's a text based cd player that comes w/ the system... but for some reason I can't find it right now. Ah, cdcontrol... it's in /usr/sbin. There are a number of X based CD players. I'm personally partial to xmcd. You can grab the package (it requires Motif, and although it compiles and plays fine using Lesstif, not all of the functions work cleanly). Others include cdplay, xcd, xcdplayer, workman... have a look in /usr/ports/audio (or if you haven't installed the ports collection you can find them on the CD-ROM if you installed from that or at ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/audio Packages are found at: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/packages/audio > Also certain programs (mostly multimedia type stuff) will > not run due to problems finding colors on my machine. How > do I tell the machine to find these colors? How much memory do you have on your video card and how are you starting X? X default starts in 8 bpp which isn't a lot of colors. If you have 4 MB of VRAM, I recommend using 16 bpp and if you have 8 MB, you might try 32 bpp. You won't run out of colors then. :-) You can see the man pages for startx or xdm to figure out how to set the bpp (in xdm it's just -bpp 32 for 32bpp and I believe that's also true for startx). Brett ********************************************************* Brett Taylor brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu http://peloton.physics.montana.edu/brett/ But Master, does not the fire need water too? Does not the mountain need the storm? - Beavis To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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