From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Jun 22 0:35:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from f1node03.rhrz.uni-bonn.de (node03.rhrz.uni-bonn.de [131.220.18.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D429337BA9F for ; Thu, 22 Jun 2000 00:35:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from uzs106@ibm.rhrz.uni-bonn.de) Received: from moritz.alleswirdgelber (ascend-tk-p198.dialin.uni-bonn.de [131.220.244.198]) by f1node03.rhrz.uni-bonn.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA83268; Thu, 22 Jun 2000 09:33:49 +0200 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by moritz.alleswirdgelber (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA00414; Thu, 22 Jun 2000 08:56:50 GMT (envelope-from uzs106@ibm.rhrz.uni-bonn.de) Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 08:56:50 +0000 (GMT) From: Heiko Recktenwald X-Sender: uzs106@moritz.alleswirdgelber To: David Johnson Cc: leegold , newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: music cds In-Reply-To: <39515D98.A891F108@acuson.com> 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 > > 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). Or cdplay or, I learned to love it, cdcontrol, which is allready installed on your system. > > 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). Well, you dont need a soundcard for audio CDs at all ;-) Just plug your Hifi or headphones into the audio jack of the CD Rom drive, its outside. H. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message