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Date:      Fri, 11 Jul 1997 17:01:39 -0400
From:      Joe <jseward@voicenet.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: CD-Audio
Message-ID:  <3.0.3.32.19970711170139.0069c450@popmail.voicenet.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970711133154.18514A-100000@gator.wgss.net>

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At 01:40 PM 7/11/97 -0700, you wrote:
>
>Hello,
>
>My name is Rich and I am unable to play audio cd's on my atapi 
>cd-rom drive. This is my dmesg output for it:
>
>wdc0: unit 1 (atapi): <MATSHITA CR-574/1.06>, removable, accel, iordis
>wcd0: 689Kb/sec, 211Kb cache, audio play, 256 volume levels, ejectable tray
>wcd0: medium type unknown, unlocked 
>
>and then sound:
>
>sb0 at 0x220 irq 10 drq 1 on isa 
>sb0: <SoundBlaster 16 4.13> 
>sbmidi0 at 0x330 on isa
> <SoundBlaster MPU-401> 
>sbxvi0 at 0x0 drq 5 on isa
>sbxvi0: <SoundBlaster 16 4.13>
>
>I have made the appropraite device nodes
>sh MAKEDEV wcd0
>sh MAKEDEV snd0
>I know that the sound works because I am able to play MP3's.
>The cd-rom was tested on a win95 machine and it plays cd-audio.
>I have tried several cd's and it's the same, it says that I do
>not have a cd-rom in my drive.
>I have tried cdcontrol, cdplay, xmcd, xcdplayer and workman
>and none of them worked.
>When trying 'cdcontrol -f /dev/rwcd0a'
>and then play 1 the cd-rom flashes for 2secs or so and then stops
>flashing and spinning. I have FreeBSD 2.2.2 CD and was able to 
>do a CD-ROM installation @ about 300kb/sec no problem, it's just audio
>that does not work.
>
>P.S.: Any Help/Suggestions will be greatly appriciated..
>
>Thank You,
>Rich
>rich@wgss.net
>
>
>
>

To play CD audio on my system I just type in:

cdcontrol -f rwcd0c

I have a atapi Creative CD-Rom and a SoundBlaster AWE32 sound card.

Joe Seward
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