From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 2 17:38:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fosburgh.dyndns.org (Dorm-36314.RH.UH.EDU [129.7.141.218]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C9A71514B for ; Fri, 2 Apr 1999 17:38:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wotan@fosburgh.dyndns.org) Received: from localhost (wotan@localhost) by fosburgh.dyndns.org (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id TAA43519; Fri, 2 Apr 1999 19:37:19 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from wotan@fosburgh.dyndns.org) Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1999 19:37:13 -0600 (CST) From: Jonathan Fosburgh Reply-To: jef53313@bayou.uh.edu To: Jason Hudgins Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: KSCD crashing under FreeBSD 3.1 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 2 Apr 1999, Jason Hudgins wrote: > I had problems with this several months ago.. > > Look in the kscd source at plat_freebsd.c > make sure the define for #DEFAULT_CD_DEVICE points > to the correct device for your system... > > Apparently if kscd fails to open the device it just > likes to dump core. > > On Fri, 2 Apr 1999, Jonathan Fosburgh wrote: > > > > Hmm.. > > > Yes I got the kscd to work, it's quite a while ago for now. Actually > > > I don't use KDE anyway, only some applications... sometimes :) As you > > > say that cdcontrol works fine (for audio cd's, right?), I assume the > > > hardware is ok. Now it's beyond my knowledge, maybe somebody else can > > > help you further. Have you tried workman, it needs some additional > > > libraries but it's worth of try, it's the only X cd-player which > > > works for my home computer. > > > -- > > Already tried it, I think I tried about all of the X cd players and only xcd > > worked, and as I recall it wasn't very wonderful. > > -- > > Jonathan Fosburgh > > Geotechnician > > Snyder Oil Corporation > > Houston, TX > > > > Home Page: > > http://www.geocities.com/vienna/1498 > > Manager, FreeBSD Webring: > > http://www.geocities.com/vienna/1498/computer/freebsdring.html > > ICQ: 32742908 > > AIM: Namthorien > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > Jason Hudgins > http://www.incantations.net/~thanatos > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > I had tried that a long time ago, that was how I got kscd to stop crashing on launch. :) All of the X cd players I try seem to behave in a similar manner, but they don't give good error messages. xmcd does give a better message, and here is the text: CD audio: ioctl error on /dev/racd0c: cmd=CDIOCPLAYMSF errno=5 Anyone able to offer and help with this? Jonathan Fosburgh Geotechnician Snyder Oil Corporation Houston, TX Home Page: http://www.geocities.com/vienna/1498 Manager, FreeBSD Webring: http://www.geocities.com/vienna/1498/computer/freebsdring.html ICQ: 32742908 AIM: Namthorien To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message