> Let me clarify: my cd-rom hardware, and the software to access it,
> work fine. What we can't get to work is a program to play audio cd's
> from netbsd-i386 1.3 alpha. I am wondering if there is any software
> for playing audio cd's from an IDE cdrom drive to the soundblaster
> card. On some drives we can just press the 'play' button on the front
> of the cd-rom drive but most of our drives don't have front buttons.

I use xcdplayer to control audio CD playback of my IDE CDROM drive
(through front panel jack). You may have to use mixerctl to set
output volume on Soundblaster.

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Zdenek Salvet                                              salvet@ics.muni.cz 
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