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  • Subject: [BL] Very small console CD player for BL, was Re: BL3 + Sound Blaster
  • Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 23:04:36 +0000 (UTC)

Now I have good sound quality for audio CDs, except for the fact of
having
only the "R" channel.
"L" is muted somehow with a little "buzzing" in background (not only
under
BL3 but also under every other Linuxes I've tried).

Very odd. Do you use the same speakers every time, and also with Windows?

Yes I do. The same to speakers and headphones, which I prefer.
Debian, Kurumin and Basic Linux allow me to choose between speakers and
headphones, but Windows doesn't.

Powered ISA sound cards let you choose between the two outputs (or use a volume dial). I thought the difference was just in loudness.


I believe the only difference is the impedance, which is lower for speakers
(8 ohms) and a little higher for headphones (32 ohms).
In theory, listening to headphones at 8 ohms would cut the treble
frequencies, but this kind of perception is too difficult to the human
ears.
Small headphones tend to be weak in the low frequency range so this might compensate.

And in this case, the sound card circuitry would provide this change
automatically - also in theory.


I can say the sound (software) is OK and I have learnt a lot, thanks to
you.

Many other people taught me what I learned, on this list.

And I'm also trying to help other people, but your dedication and kindness
are just fantastic!

Many people here have done even more, such as compiling difficult programs on request, and Steven (author of BasicLinux) has been polite and patient about answering the same questions for many years now, and has also compiled programs and added features to keep up with changes in hardware and computer use. People on this list taught me to compile.


Since 'workbone' is a non-X application the menu becomes visually
strange.
Is there a way of working around it? ( Just for curiousity: This isn't so
important after all ) .

Ctrl-Alt-F2 gets you a full-screen terminal to run it in, white on black.
I have never used it under X. What does it look like? Maybe you can
design an rxvt (xterm) that looks better.

It looks fine in text mode, but under X only "_"s and "|"s are
shown in a "white desert"
(however the word "quit" and the question mark (?) are shown in reverse).
As a provisory solution, I've printed that menu and I keep it near the
monitor screen.

I just looked, and in BL2 (with whatever default font I am using), I am seeing the wrong characters too.

Archive search:
https://lists.ibiblio.org/sympa/arc/baslinux/2004-May/004228.html

"In order to save space, most of the fonts in BL3 have been stripped of international characters". (This is the fonts in misc).

Xvesa has built-in fonts 5x8 and 6x13, and fonts.dir also lists 9x15 11x19 14x24 r14 and r12

In BL2, none of these fonts work with workbone. Nor do a bunch of others that I tried from the standard set.

The problem seems to be that in rxvt workbone displays the upper instead of lower ascii characters. Capital A with umlaut instead of a horizontal line, etc.

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mcdp is a console cd player that also includes volume control (unlike dcd). 29K bz2. I typed 'make' and a few seconds later had 'mcdp' executable. 17K (stripped or not) compiled against glibc 2.2.5. 2K mcdp.1

I typed 'mcdp' and was told 'no disk e/c' in red, in a regular console or an rxvt. Ctrl-C got me a ByeBye.

The screenshot shows lots of colors against a fancy background (which background might be part of someone's wm).

There is a doc directory with instructions for compiling if you want to edit the Makefile and params.h (change keys, colors, etc.)
Params.h says it is vt100, xterm, linux, xterm-color compatible.

It needs kernel 2.2 or later, and any libc.

I am not set up to compile for BL3 (until I learn to cross-compile).

14K for uclibc-dynamic version.

.........................

I just spent 30 min looking for instructions on how to compile statically against uclibc and finally tried the BL archives and found my own instructions from compiling nano (someone must have helped with this).


make CFLAGS="--static". I now have a 32K mcdp-uclibc.

http://keesan.freeshell.org/bl/mcdp-uclibc.tgz 17K
For any linux.

http://keesan.freeshell.org/bl/mcdp-glibc225.tgz 11K
Needs glibc 2.2.5 update (SW8.1).

These include the man page in html format.

tar -zxvf in /tmp, then copy mcdp* to /usr/local/bin/mcdp
and mcdp.html to wherever you like (BL3 man directory, /usr/local/share in BL2). There is no built in -h or --help.

I'll try to edit it somehow and tell you what I've got.
Is there some simple GUI CD player you would like to use instead?

Thanks.

Teixeira



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