Subject: Re: My kingdom for an iMac running YDL that can play cds...
From: nathan r. hruby (nhruby@arches.uga.edu)
Date: Wed Feb 20 2002 - 07:27:11 MST
On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Justin DelVecchio wrote:
>
> First, as you may have guessed, I cannot get cd's to play through kscd or the
> cd player provided by Gnome. The cd players do not register the number of
> tracks when I
> insert the cd and pressing play does nothing. What gets me is the fact that it
> will not recognize the number of tracks but will gladly eject my cd when I
> press eject. I realize this is a hardware issue that may be impossible to
> resolve at this time but does anyone have any advice? Even if the advice is
> "Give up." at least I would stop reading the groups and downloading stuff like
> the xmms plugin or cdparanoia...
>
Eject is different from reading the tracks, essentailly all hitting the
eject button in a cd player does is issue the correct command to the
proper device (/dev/cdrom> This has nothing to do with reading the disc.
> Second, my soundcfg in /usr/sbin is toast!! It blinks with a red backgroud
> anytime I open the directory it is located in with xterm. Pretty humorous. I
> have this app
> basically screaming that the sound on my iMac is messed up - don't I know it!!
>
If it's red and blinking that means there's a misplaced sybmolic link
somewhere. doing an "ls -l /usr/sbin/sndconfig" will tell you what it's
pointing at. You may just want to reinstall the rpm package that sndgonfi
comes with. (eg: rpm -q --file=/usr/sbin/sndconfig will give you the
package, and then reintall it off the cd)
> Third, I have set my system to play system sounds when I do simple tasks like
> log in, close a window, create a new window, etc. The sound gets played but is
> always
> delayed by about 15 seconds after the action!! Pretty pathetic. I must be
> missing something simple.
>
> Later tonight I am going to sit down with a 5th of vodka and attempt to get my
> printer working through a usb cable on an imac running YDL.. Yeah, that ought
> to go by the numbers....
>
Use Google and linuxpriting.org to see if your printer is supported, this
will save you a bunch of drunken torment.
-n
-- ...... nathan hruby - nhruby@arches.uga.edu computer support specialist department of drama and theatre http://www.drama.uga.edu/ ......
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