Akenner <slackwarew...@comcast.net> writes: > I've been searching on the net for like an hour trying to see how to > play a CD on FreeBSD, and normally I'd have just tried mounting it, > being from the Linux world, but when I first checked to be sure of the > proper way, I found mostly info saying not to mount it at all. > > So now I'm not sure what is the right way to do it. On two machines > each having between 1 - 3 drives to play CDs from, I've tried just > loading a CD player app and hitting play, but it doesn't find the CD, > and on one machine there is only one drive so it can't be the wrong > one. > > None of the pages I found said it was OK to mount it, and so I'm a > little confused how you play CDs, and I've used cdplay as root to make > sure I had access since the one app said I couldn't access the CD > drive, and nothing has happened. > > How is the normal way of playing a regular audio CD in FreeBSD?
See the entry in the FreeBSD FAQ titled "Why can I not mount an audio CD?" http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#MOUNT-AUDIO-CD -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
