From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun Jul 19 07:39:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA18875 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Sun, 19 Jul 1998 07:39:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from harfang.CC.UMontreal.CA (harfang.CC.UMontreal.CA [132.204.2.102]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA18856; Sun, 19 Jul 1998 07:39:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from beaupran@JSP.UMontreal.CA) Received: from epsom.jsp.umontreal.ca (epsom.JSP.UMontreal.CA [132.204.45.25]) by harfang.CC.UMontreal.CA (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA26370; Sun, 19 Jul 1998 10:38:58 -0400 (EDT) Received: from outpost.nada.org (derby.jsp.umontreal.ca [132.204.45.26]) by epsom.jsp.umontreal.ca via SMTP (951211.SGI.8.6.12.PATCH1502/JSP1789) id KAA01149; Sun, 19 Jul 1998 10:38:54 -0400 Date: Sun, 19 Jul 1998 10:40:51 -0400 (EDT) From: Spidey X-Sender: beaupran@outpost.nada.org To: Ken Seggerman cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, FreeBSD Newbies Mailing List Subject: Re: cdplayer on laptop no sound In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, 18 Jul 1998, Ken Seggerman wrote: > Greetings: > > I have a laptop (Toshiba Satellite 305CDS) running 2.2.5. I also have > 2.2.5 running on my PC. > > The modem that came with the laptop (Xircom CreditCard 56T) is not > supported and I have given up on working around it with an external. > > Thus I am unable at this time to avail myself of the ports collection. > > cdplayer is not on the 2.2.5 CD, but I have it on the PC, I must haved > downloaded the port, I don't remember. I don't know anything such as cdplayer! In the ports (rel 2.2.6) I have: beaupran@outpost [10:27am] ~/.procmail> ls /usr/ports/audio/ CVS/ gsm/ nspmod/ sox/ xmcd/ Makefile kdemultimedia/ pkg/ splay/ xmix/ README.html maplay/ playmidi/ timidity/ xmmix/ amp/ mikmod/ radio/ tosha/ xmpeg3/ cam/ mpegaudio/ rosegarden/ tracker/ cddbd/ mpg123/ rplay/ workman/ cdplay/ mxv/ rsynth/ xcd/ gmod/ nas/ s3mod/ xcdplayer/ So I got a cdplay, a xcdplayer, but no cdplayer... :) > cdplayer works fine on the the PC. What I did was take the cdplayer > executable from the PC, put it on a floppy and copied onto the laptop. Maybe what you should have done is: 1-fetch the source code from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/distfiles/ 2-put it in /usr/ports/distfiles/ 3-fetch the port, if you do not have it already in /usr/ports/audio/ 4-cd /usr/ports/audio/cdplay (or xcdplayer, or whatever) 5-make install > The cdplayer program runs, it reads from the CD shows the tracks and > volume, it stops, plays and pauses and even ejects the CD tray. Ok, that's good. > However no sound comes out of either the little laptop speakers or the > headphones when they are plugged in. hmmm, is there a headphone plug on the cdplayer? Try putting it in this one instead. > I am hoping that this can be fixed by doing a MAKEDEV on some device in > /dev like speaker or audiopcmcia or if necessary re-compiling the kernel. I don't think so. If you can communicate with the cd, it must be something else/ > I don't really know where to look for next. I don't know laptops. If they have audio output, they gotta have a sound card of some sort. Have you konfigured your kernel to enable it? Check the output of the dmesg command (or the messages at boot time...) Your sound card got to be enabled at startup somehow... > (I tried rplayer from the packages collection on the CD but couldn't even > get that to work at all, does it even play CDs?) No. It's got almost nothing to do with "cdplaying". From the description: <><><><><><><><><><><> rplay is a flexible network audio system that allows sounds to be played to and from local and remote systems. <><><><><><><><><><><> Spidey To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message