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> > > 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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