Re: [ILUG] Playing CD's

From: Mel (gormo at domain csn.ul.ie)
Date: Tue 04 May 1999 - 14:22:01 IST


On Tue, 4 May 1999 Noel.C.Carroll at domain life.friendsfirst.ie wrote:

> I've got RH6 up and running and am running Gnome &b KDE whever the mood takes me
> but I prefer Gnome. ESD loads up when I start up and I'm hearing my sound
> themes from Gnome. When I try to play CD's however I can't hear any music.
> Doing a cat x.wav > /dev/audio tells me that /dev/audio is undefined but the
> directory exists. Anyone know what I'm doing wrong?
>

I'd say your cd player is not ESD aware. ESD by default takes /dev/audio
and holds onto it. You need to get ESD to let go of the device after a few
seconds. You can doo this by editing the source to esound and edit esd.c
You will find a line with

int esd_autostandby_secs = -1;

on it. Set this to 5 and then after 5 seconds of no use, ESD releases the
device and the cd player should be fine.

> Noel

 Mel



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