[Sussex] Laptop sound

[Gavin Stevens]

On Fri, 17 Mar 2006 07:57:31 +0000
Steven Dobson <steve at dobson.org> wrote:
Steve,

> > I installed a couple of dedicated CD players (xfreecd & xmcd) to see
> > if they would play an audio CD.
> 
> These are just two more user applications for playing CDs - they are
> not kernel drivers.

The kernel has the sb16 module (correct for the ESS688 chip) plus others
like soundlow, OSS. These were selected during installation.
> 
> > They didn't, but did at least offer the message "can't open
> > /dev/cdrom - permission denied".
> 
> I'm not sure that all laptops (esp early models) could play CDs.  I'm
> not sure there were the connections to send the audio signal from the
> player to the laptop's sound hardware.
> 
> > This is something I remember from using Woody before. If I remember
> > correctly, it's just a question of changing the /dev/cdrom symlink
> > so that the ordinary user account can use the CD-ROM.
> 
> No it is better to change the device that /dev/cdrom references.

Thanks - I'll give that a try.

Gavin.