From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Jul 4 7:18:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from spectre.honk.org (cr876208-a.flfrd1.on.wave.home.com [24.42.175.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C32E937B861 for ; Tue, 4 Jul 2000 07:18:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mpoulin@honk.org) Received: from spectre.honk.org (mpoulin@spectre.honk.org [24.42.175.137]) by spectre.honk.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id KAA03494; Tue, 4 Jul 2000 10:19:05 -0400 Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2000 10:19:04 -0400 (EDT) From: Marty Poulin To: leegold Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: xcdplayer In-Reply-To: <003301bfe562$6b1ea770$31dd7ad1@beefstew> 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 First problem: you can't mount an audio CD - there's no filesystem to mount. The rest of the problems are more tricky. I seem to remember from some time ago that xcdplayer and cdplayer like the CD-ROM to be /dev/cdrom or /cdrom. Try creating symbolic links for both of those to your actual cdrom device (probably /dev/acd0a or something) hint: to create symbolic links: ln -s (man ln for more info) - M - On Mon, 3 Jul 2000, leegold wrote: > anybody know about getting xcdplayer to work? if so see below and > go to the question mail list were I posted a similiar question and > help me out please. > > xcdplayer & in my .xinitrc gives an open xcdplayer control > panel in X. But the xcdplayer panel/window says: "no disc ". I > figured I'd try to mount the music cd as root, then see if > xcdplayer sees a disk. But that's not correct because err. > message: file system not recognized and not "9660" ect. Starting > xcdplayer from the cmd line in an xterm window doesn't work as > root - I get "Device not configured", as lee ( a user) I get: > " permission denied". Both error messages are continually > scrolled till I do a control c. but starting xcdplayer in the > .xinitrc seems to open it OK. except when I exit X the console > has "device not configured" scrolled on it. > > So, I think there's a little more configuring I have to do. Any > help appreciated. > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message