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Date:      Sat, 29 Nov 2008 15:38:38 -0800 (PST)
From:      =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Mikko_Ty=F6l=E4j=E4rvi?= <mbsd@pacbell.net>
To:        Ilya Nickolsky <aspdaspn@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD and Audio CD
Message-ID:  <20081129153829.F36744@antec.home>
In-Reply-To: <4c3522c70811210725m2e3f1e6en419140e95c77318@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <4c3522c70811210725m2e3f1e6en419140e95c77318@mail.gmail.com>

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On Fri, 21 Nov 2008, Ilya Nickolsky wrote:

> Hello All,
>
> I have FreeBSD 63 running on Thinkpad 600X (P3, 256 Mb RAM, sound CS4624). I
> could listen AudioCD only with cdcontrol play command entered in console or
> in xterm under X. When CD is playing the CD-ROM drive lit a led not
> constantly and sound is correct. but when I use any player for X like
> default in GNOME, or Mplayer/XINE/XMMS under freevo I hear sound
> interruptions and CD-ROM LED lit constantly. I hear sound interruption and
> sound is not "clear". Could you help me to correct this?

Music on CDs?  How quaint... :)

Check that the driver is using DMA: Do "sysctl hw.ata.atapi_dma"  - if it
says "0", you can enable DMA but putting hw.ata.atapi_dma="1" into
/boot/loader.conf and reboot.

    $.02,
    /Mikko



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