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From: Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@×××.edu>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] playing audio discs
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:11:10
Message-Id: yu9abgfs2ns.fsf@nyu.edu
1 I am a novice with respect to sound.
2
3 Nearly everything works.
4 totem plays CDs
5 system sounds are OK
6
7 The trouble is that the cd player, gnome-cd part of gnome-media,
8 says there is no disc in the drive (there is only one drive).
9
10 I don't have many USE flags (in particular ogg, wavpack, and vorbis)
11 since I don't really know what thes formats are. Since this is a
12 regular CD, I looked for a wav use flag and for gst-plugins-wav,
13 which do not exist.
14
15 My make.conf has
16
17 USE=" alsa dbus doc emacs esd gnome gtk guile hal java jpeg mad mp3 \
18 mmx mpeg png ppds scanner sse sse2 truetype X xft xulrunner"
19
20 My /usr/src/linux/.config has
21 CONFIG_SND=m
22 CONFIG_SND_TIMER=m
23 CONFIG_SND_PCM=m
24 CONFIG_SND_HWDEP=m
25 CONFIG_SND_SEQUENCER=m
26 CONFIG_SND_OSSEMUL=y
27 CONFIG_SND_MIXER_OSS=m
28 CONFIG_SND_PCM_OSS=m
29 CONFIG_SND_HDA_INTEL=m
30 CONFIG_SND_HDA_HWDEP=y
31 CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_REALTEK=y
32 CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_ANALOG=y
33 CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_SIGMATEL=y
34 CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_VIA=y
35 CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_ATIHDMI=y
36 CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_CONEXANT=y
37 CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_CMEDIA=y
38 CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_SI3054=y
39 CONFIG_SND_HDA_GENERIC=y
40
41 Any help/advice would be appreciated.
42
43 thanks,
44 allan
45
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