On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 08:52:02PM +0000, Edward Felberbaum wrote: > Hi, > > I'm a happy user of Slackintosh 10.2 on an Apple G3 Wallstreet. > > Things generally work very well. > > I do have two issues I'd like to resolve. > > 1) I can't physically eject a PC Card while in Slackintosh. > > I've tried pbbuttons but all that does is issue cardctl eject. I tried > pccardctl eject that only seems to logically eject the card but NOT > physically eject the card. Currently I have to either turn off the machine > so I can press the PC card eject button or boot into Mac OS 9 to *E the > card. but if the card is logically ejected, and you have a button to physically eject it (which i assume you do, since you can eject it when the machine is turned off), shouldn't you be able to safely press that button? > 2) I can't play Audio CD's while in Slackintosh. > > I can read data CD's but when I try something like Workbone, it returns > immediately. No error message. It's been a while since I was looking at > Workbone code but I thought that maybe the IOCTL to play an audio CD has a > problem. I really don't know what the problem is. the problem is probably that there is no cable from the cd-drive to the sound card. standard pc's have such a cable, which basically turns the cd-drive into a cd-player: the sound is sent directly from the cd-drive to the sound card, without intervention from the cpu. workbone and such programs basically just instruct the cd-drive to do this. but on macintosh computers this generally doesn't work, because apple have decided not to connect the cd-drive to the sound card. so if you want to play audio cd's on a mac, you need a program that does all the hard work itself: read the audio data, convert it and send it to the sound card. i haven't been successful at this yet... xmms is supposed to be able to do this, but i didn't manage to get it to work. IIUC you have to set the cd-audio plugin (libcdaudio or something) to "digital mode" in the preferences (the other option, "analogue mode" being the one where the cd-drive is supposed to send the audio data directly to the sound card), but in my case xmms still only played the first few seconds of a cd, after which no more sound came out of the speakers. -- Joost Kremers, PhD University of Cologne Institute for German Language and Literature Albertus Magnus Platz 50923 Cologne, Germany Tel. +49 221 / 4703807