Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2011 22:10:24 -0500 From: "Michael D. Norwick" <mnorwick@centurytel.net> To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can't play an audio CD Message-ID: <4EA23420.5010204@centurytel.net> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1110210849030.51001@freeman.4gh.net> References: <4EA0C642.6080509@centurytel.net> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1110210849030.51001@freeman.4gh.net>
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On 10/21/11 08:15, Stuart Barkley wrote: > [Much of the original message trimmed. See thoughts below.] > > On Thu, 20 Oct 2011 at 21:09 -0000, Michael D. Norwick wrote: > >> I am trying to get a Dell Latitude D630 laptop to play audio CD's >> without success. >> >> $uname -a >> >> FreeBSD ****.****.net 9.0-RC1 FreeBSD 9.0-RC1 #1: Wed Oct 19 05:37:43 CDT 2011 >> michael@****.****.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/KERNEL_101811 amd64 > I'm still using FreeBSD 8 on my main server. > >> I have rebooted several times and tried the old original freebsd 9 >> kernel (%boot kernel.orig) from the initial install with the same >> result - can't play an audio CD. I can now - mount_cd9660 - a data >> CD with my custom kernel booted. I know sound works because gnome >> audio themes work. > This is all good. > >> As was suggested, I have run the command line tools and have gotten >> mixed results, such as; >> >> $ camcontrol devlist >> <TSSTcorp DVD+-RW TS-L632H D300> at scbus1 target 0 lun 0 (pass0,cd0) >> <ST980813ASG 3.ADD> at scbus2 target 0 lun 0 (ada0,pass1) >> >> and; >> >> $cdcontrol play 1 >> >> results in drive activity but again, no audio. > The most likely case is that your system does not support direct audio > from the CD drive and that you need to play your CDs with a different > application (instead of just a hardware command). > > It used to be common for an audio signal cable to be connected > directly from the CD drive to a specific CD input on the audio mixer. > The 'cdcontrol play' command directs the CD drive to start playing > audio. After that everything was done in hardware/firmware with no > further OS or application interaction needed. > > Many current system don't provide this direct audio connection > anymore. The audio mixers don't all have input connectors and I don't > know if the audio output is even on current DVD drives. I haven't > paid attention on recent system hardware assemblies since I don't > worry about this anymore. > > Things to try: > > We need to see the output of the 'mixer' command. It is possible that > the volume control for the CD input is set to 0. My guess is that you > don't even have a CD volume control. > > Look at the output from 'cdcontrol volume'. My system shows 255 for > the left and right channels. It is possible that these are 0 on your > system thus muting output. > > Try other audio player applications. Some of them should support > playing CDs directly. These application will read the data from the > drive and then send it to the system audio. I don't use any of these > anymore, I rip everything to mp3 files. > > Stuart $ mixer Mixer vol is currently set to 100:100 Mixer pcm is currently set to 75:75 Mixer speaker is currently set to 75:75 Mixer rec is currently set to 75:75 Recording source: monitor and $ cdcontrol volume Left volume = 216, right volume = 216 with an audio CD in the drive after executing $cdcontrol play. Still no sound from the thing and though I have external speakers plugged into the headphone out jack, it doesn't matter if I unplug them. I have tried gnome sound juicer and abraca without success. I am using; $pkg_info -a pulseaudio-0.9.22_1 abraca-0.6.0 ffmpeg-0.7.5,1 gxmms2-0.7.1 libggi-2.2.2_3,1 sdl-1.2.14_2,2 xmms2-0.7_2 libdv-1.0.0_2 mplayer-1.0.r20110329_3 sound-juicer-2.32.0 alsa-lib-1.0.23 jackit-0.121.3 libao-1.1.0_1 swfdec-0.8.4_3 swfdec-gnome-2.30.1 In the Gnome multimedia selector tool, OSS is selected for default input and output. The tests on that page produce sound when the test buttons are clicked. Although I don't know why pulseaudio would not be a selection. It is not. Thank You, Michael
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