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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!news From: Henrik Bylund <heb@fubar.campus.luth.se> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: CD player for ATAPI CDROM ? Date: 27 Oct 1996 09:44:54 +0100 Organization: People's Front Against WWW Lines: 16 Message-ID: <87vibw3iex.fsf@fubar.campus.luth.se> References: <stanbDzwqvn.9sE@netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: fubar.campus.luth.se X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.32 stanb@netcom.com (Stan Brown) writes: > Coming from the Workstation world, when I got my FreeBSD system >up, one of the first things I tried to set up was xmcd, the CD player >that I am used to using. Unfortunately it appears to only work on >SCSI CD's. Can anyone point me to the correct player software for an >ATAPI CDROM ? You can always try /usr/sbin/cdplay, which is a textbased cdplayer which can easily be embedded in a graphical version, using for example Tcl/Tk, like the 'xcd' program from the ports distribution. I got both of them to work with my ATAPI CDROM, so it should work without problems. (And no, me neither have had any success with xmcd.) /Henrik