From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Jun 21 17:30:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from odin.acuson.com (odin.acuson.com [157.226.230.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0883237C0EF for ; Wed, 21 Jun 2000 17:30:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from djohnson@acuson.com) Received: from acuson.com ([157.226.69.47]) by odin.acuson.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.54) with ESMTP id AAA5371; Wed, 21 Jun 2000 17:31:59 -0700 Message-ID: <39515D98.A891F108@acuson.com> Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 17:28:08 -0700 From: David Johnson Organization: Acuson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4m) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: leegold Cc: newbies@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: music cds References: <000701bfdbde$b66e0730$12dca4d8@beefstew> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org leegold wrote: > i have no idea how to get my cd player playing music cds. previous question > on the newsgroup have cited that i must recompile my kernel first - why? > FreeBSD sees the sound chip. i think i need pca driver? not sure. The first step is making sure you have some sort of sound, you can worry about the cd player later (xcdplayer should work). Have you make the sound devices? If not, do a 'sh /dev/MAKEDEV snd0'. Can you hear anything? Install a simple wav player and play a wav file (copy one from windoze to a floppy). Once you know you can hear sound, move on the cd players. Most players do not want the cd mounted, but a few do (xmms does). So try playing the cd both mounted and unmounted. David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message