Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 17:39:39 +0200 From: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> To: Wes Morgan <morganw@chemikals.org> Cc: multimedia@freebsd.org, Gary Jennejohn <gljennjohn@googlemail.com> Subject: Re: 3 devices in /dev/sndstat Message-ID: <201008211539.o7LFddLk007526@fire.js.berklix.net> In-Reply-To: Your message "Fri, 20 Aug 2010 18:14:31 CDT." <alpine.BSF.2.00.1008201813190.38854@ibyngvyr>
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Wes Morgan wrote: > On Sat, 21 Aug 2010, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > > > > Did you try to select another default unit as per SOUND(4)? > > > # sysctl hw.snd.default_unit=1 > > > > Thanks Boris :-) I got some sound working after man 4 sound & fixed some > > mistakes > > Modules not matching kernel, > > Wrong driver in loader.conf, > > These still fail: > > xcdplayer # Fails from CDs in DVD drive > > cdcontrol -f /dev/acd0 play 1 # Fails > > But these work: > > ksmp3play file_from_disc.mp3 # Plays OK from hard disc > > vlc /cdrom # Plays OK from DVD > > Anyone got a clue why ? > > cdcontrol plays the audio through the CD player's own audio out port that > must connect to an input of your sound device, while vlc is probably > reading the digital audio directly from the disc and playing that. Thanks Wes, Here's a diff so others dont't get caught. Are errors before I send-pr it ? ------------- http://berklix.com/~jhs/src/bsd/fixes/FreeBSD/src/gen/usr.sbin/cdcontrol/cdcontrol.1.REL=8.1-RELEASE.diff Doc team: Please feel free to change my .rof syntax to your man macro style. *** 8.1-RELEASE/src/usr.sbin/cdcontrol/cdcontrol.1 Sat Aug 21 13:37:53 2010 --- new/src/usr.sbin/cdcontrol/cdcontrol.1 Sat Aug 21 16:38:03 2010 *************** *** 220,222 **** --- 220,257 ---- .An Jean-Marc Zucconi .An Andrey A. Chernov .An Serge V. Vakulenko + .Sh LIMITATION + To deliver audio, + .Nm + needs a screened 3 or 4 wire audio cable from the cdrom drive Audio + Out 4 pin socket, to the sound card or main board, 3 or 4 pin socket, + labelled "CD_IN" + .\" (eg on a Gigabyte EG31MF-S2_ver_2.0 main board). + .br + Some DVD players + .\" (eg HL-DT-STDVD-RAM GH22NP20) + have a 4 pin audio socket, but state in their manual it is not supported. + .br + In such cases: + .in +2 + .ti -2 + - + .Nm + will not produce audio (despite being the first command + reccomended by + http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/sound-setup.html + .\" Which also needs to be patched with a send-pr. + ): + .ti -2 + - /usr/ports/audio/\fBxcdplayer\fR\" & others presumably + will also not produce audio. + .ti -2 + - For digital audio via IDE cable, these work: /usr/ports/multimedia/ + {\fBmplayer, vlc, xine\fR}. + .in -2 + .\" Refs (FYI, strip pre commit): + .\" test host: FreeBSD-8.1-RELEASE amd64, device "snd_hda" + .\" multimedia@@@freebsd.org Aug 2010 + .\" Subject: Re: 3 devices in /dev/sndstat + .\" "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@@@berklix.com> + .\" "Boris Samorodov" <bsam@@@ipt.ru> + .\" "Wes Morgan" <morganw@@@chemikals.org> ------------- Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey: BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Mail plain text, Not HTML, quoted-printable & base 64 dumped with spam. Avoid top posting, It cripples itemised cumulative responses.
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