Playing audio CD's on an SS5 CD-ROM drive

From: Chris Wareham (chris.wareham@catchword.com)
Date: Mon Nov 27 2000 - 09:29:37 PST

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    Message-ID: <3A229A01.1020903@catchword.com>
    Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 17:29:37 +0000
    From: Chris Wareham <chris.wareham@catchword.com>
    Subject: Playing audio CD's on an SS5 CD-ROM drive
    

    Has anyone had any success playing audio CD's
    on an internal SPARC CD-ROM drive, with the
    output coming out of the workstation's built in
    speaker?

    I have recompiled my kernel with support for
    the CS4231 audio chipset, and cat'ted a few
    WAV files to /dev/audio to test it. The sound
    came out way too loud, and it sounded like
    the file was played too slowly - but there
    was output at least.

    The next thing I tried to do was compile
    xmmix and xmcd, configuring the latter to
    support my Toshiba CD-ROM drive. The mixer
    works (after fixing a syntax problem in
    the source), and I now have control of the
    speaker's volume.

    Xmcd also compiled, and recognised that
    there was an audio CD in the drive when I
    ran it. It appears to play the CD, but no
    sound comes out of the SparcStation's
    speaker.

    Does anyone know if I should open the
    machine up and connect the drive to the
    motherboard in some way to enable sound
    output?

    Chris



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