Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 14:00:11 -0800 From: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> To: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, KDE at FreeBSD List <kde-freebsd@kde.org> Subject: Re: Basically: why such troubles with KDE audio? Message-ID: <20071120220011.GA44646@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20071120200646.GA95610@slackbox.xs4all.nl> References: <20071120185548.GA43505@thought.org> <20071120200646.GA95610@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
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On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 09:06:46PM +0100, Roland Smith wrote: > On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 10:55:48AM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > > > > Folks, > > > > Long-short-short, at least two Gnome-type players work: > > sound-juicer and gnome-cd. But KsCD gives no audio. > > > > I am logged in as root while doing this initial testing, > > after Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl>, noted that my > > mountpoints had to be chown'd to [username]. > > Playing music usually* has nothing to do with mountpoints. Mountpoints are only > needed when you want to use a data CD with a filesystem on it. Ah, thanks for the clarification. I might not want to get sloppy with data/filesystems on a CDROM... . > > > I do want to use > > tools like K3B so the cc to the kde-freebsd list. But still > > wondering, even tho I can get the KDE CD play to display, and to > > act as tho it is working---the digits count, the slider moves: > > nothing from the speakers. When I bring up gnome-cd, I have > > audio. > > > > Suggestions from KDE-land, please? > > I'm not a KDE user, but check which audio device or output plugin the > KDE player is trying to use. If the display works (displays artist and > track info etc.) it is usually a sign that the data is being read OK. So > I would ssupect the output in this case. it --kscd--displays the numerals, counts--up,etc. just no audio. how can i determine what output this program m is trying to use? AND do so without messing up my kttsd and other such kde toys? I've used the "configure" option, but see nothing. gary > > Roland > > * I seem to recall at least one pseudo filesystem driver for Linux that > represented an audio CD as a bunch of WAV files. > -- > R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ > [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] > pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org
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