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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: CDROM won't play audio CD & Silent SoundBlaster16
Date: 3 Aug 1996 19:31:11 GMT
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Un L'Unique <Un@grolier.Fr> wrote:

>         * I can't play audio cd with the CDROM ( reading data CD was
> perfect).
> xmcd see no disk and don't want to do anything.

xmcd is no good indication to say ``I can't play audio''.  Basically,
xmcd is a bad hack (since the other systems it is supporting don't
offer a better method) that uses something like direct SCSI commands.

Try the native tools first, they all use the `official' ioctl
interface to play audio.  These include the commands `cdplay' (FreeBSD
2.1) and `cdcontrol' (FreeBSD-current).  I'm not sure offhand which of
them is in 2.1.5.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)