From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 29 10:58:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtpproxy1.mitre.org (mb-20-100.mitre.org [129.83.20.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE50C37B402 for ; Mon, 29 Jan 2001 10:57:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from avsrv2.mitre.org (avsrv2.mitre.org [128.29.154.4]) by smtpproxy1.mitre.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA18324 for ; Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:57:41 -0500 (EST) Received: from mailsrv2.mitre.org (mailsrv2.mitre.org [129.83.221.17]) by smtpsrv2.mitre.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA10455 for ; Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:57:39 -0500 (EST) Received: from mitre.org ([128.29.145.140]) by mailsrv2.mitre.org (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id G7XU0200.AR5; Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:57:38 -0500 Message-ID: <3A75BD35.FCFF29CC@mitre.org> Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:57:57 -0500 From: "Andresen,Jason R." X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en]C-20000818M (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: vijay Cc: Questions Subject: Re: newbie - Audio CD question References: <3A75B59F.90F23688@iprg.nokia.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG vijay wrote: > > Hi, I am new to FreeBSD. I wanted to know if I can play audio > CDs on "my" system. I have culled the following information from > dmesg > > wdc0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7 irq 14 on isa > wdc0: unit 0 (wd0): > wd0: 6187MB (12672450 sectors), 13410 cyls, 15 heads, 63 S/T, > 512 B/S > wdc1 at 0x170-0x177 irq 15 on isa > wdc1: unit 0 (atapi): , removable, > accel, dma, iordis > acd0: drive speed 5512KB/sec, 256KB cache > acd0: supported read types: CD-R, CD-RW, CD-DA > acd0: Audio: play, 16 volume levels > acd0: Mechanism: ejectable tray > acd0: Medium: no/blank disc inside, unlocked > > I also looked at the freebsd/ports collection under audio and > found a lot of packages but I am not sure if they will work for > "my" system. How can I find that ou? Which of these packages > would be the best if I can do it? Also, would I need to change > the kernel configuration and do a kernel recompile? Playing CDs under FreeBSD is easy. You need the cdcontrol command, which is included in the base install. Just point MUSIC_CD to your cdrom (with a command like 'export MUSIC_CD=acd0' or 'setenv MUSIC_CD acd0' and run cdcontrol. Once cdcontrol is started, just type "play". Of course if you want to do things like control the volume, you will probably want to recompile your kernel with sound support, as outlined in the handbook. -- _ _ _ ___ ____ ___ ______________________________________ / \/ \ | ||_ _|| _ \|___| | Jason Andresen -- jandrese@mitre.org / /\/\ \ | | | | | |/ /|_|_ | Views expressed may not reflect those /_/ \_\|_| |_| |_|\_\|___| | of the Mitre Corporation. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message