From owner-freebsd-multimedia Mon Dec 6 5:22:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from cx344940-a.meta1.la.home.com (cx344940-a.meta1.la.home.com [24.6.21.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A62F15290 for ; Mon, 6 Dec 1999 05:22:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from conrads@cx344940-a.meta1.la.home.com) Received: (from conrads@localhost) by cx344940-a.meta1.la.home.com (8.9.3/8.9.2) id HAA57527; Mon, 6 Dec 1999 07:22:52 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from conrads) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199912060034.AAA10629@smtp.amb.org> Date: Mon, 06 Dec 1999 07:22:51 -0600 (CST) Organization: @Home Network From: Conrad Sabatier To: (Xmcd Admin) Subject: Re: Help needed for ioctl error in xmcd/cda with IDE CD-ROM Cc: multimedia@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 06-Dec-99 Xmcd Admin wrote: > Conrad Sabatier writes: >> >> I keep getting the error: >> >> CD audio: ioctl error on /dev/racd0c: cmd=CDIOCPLAYMSF errno=5 > > What version of xmcd are you running? Some CDROM drives are slow > to respond after issuing a start command, and a subsequent request > to play can fail. In xmcd 2.5, a small delay was inserted to work > around this problem. If you are running a version of xmcd older > than 2.5, I suggest upgrading to the latest, which is 2.5 PL1. > You can download it at: > http://metalab.unc.edu/tkan/xmcd/ > > If you are already running 2.5, then perhaps I can work with you > a bit to track down the problem. I'm running the latest version. It's odd; some of the CD players I've tried under FreeBSD exhibit this behavior, while others don't. I'm no expert at what's going on at the driver/io level, I'm afraid. Would you like me to run xmcd with the -debug switch and mail you the output? -- Conrad Sabatier http://members.home.net/conrads/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message