Index of /~fujiik/mklinux/Packages/dr2.1/shared/xmcd

Name	Last modified	Size

Parent Directory		-
SPECS/	1998-01-22 13:54	-
SOURCES/	1998-01-22 13:54	-
xmcd-2.2-1B.src.rpm	1998-01-21 23:52	400K
xmcd-2.2-1B.ppc.rpm	1998-01-21 23:52	335K
xmcd-2.2-1A.src.rpm	1997-11-30 16:06	400K
xmcd-2.2-1A.ppc.rpm	1997-11-30 16:06	319K

MkLinux Installation Notes(English)

Descriptions of the Current Directory

Xmcd: An Audio-CD Player for X11

[0] News

Jan 22, 1998: xmcd-2.2-1B: the latest version with wip980113 which now alows volume control. I changed the spec file to use a new mklinux-patch which differs from the previous one with volume control disabled to avoid annoying error messages.
Dec 6, 1997: xmcd-2.2-1A: the latest version with mklinux patch.

[1] Origin

ftp://ftp.x.org:/contrib/applications/xmcd/xmcd-2.2.tar.gz

Patches were created:

xmcd-2.2-Imakefile.patch

xmcd-2.2-ppc.patch

xmcd-2.2-mklinux.patch

xmcd-2.2-mklinux-new.patch

essentially to switch off unsupported features to avoid ioctl errors as much as possible.

[2] How to Build Xmcd from SRC

The Xmcd RPM building procedure is described in its spec file:

xmcd-2.2.spec

You can rebuild the RPM using its corresponding SRPM as:

# rpm --rebuild <somewhere>/xmcd-2.2-1B.src.rpm

[3] How to Install Xmcd

Before installing xmcd, update your Mklinux to DR2.1update4 or higher: the package requires the full shared library support coming with DR2.1update4 including shared X11 libraries.

Onece the update is completed, the rest is easy:

# rpm -i <somewhere>/xmcd-2.2-1A.ppc.rpm

If you have wip980113 or later installed, you may want to install 1B instead of 1A:

# rpm -i <somewhere>/xmcd-2.2-1B.ppc.rpm

You may want to reconfigure Xmcd by

# /etc/X11/xmcd/config/config.sh

.... Answer questions .....

in order to use some remote CD data base. Once you issue this command, you will be prompted to specify your CD player type. You must choose "36. other (non-SCSI)", even if you think your CD player is SCSI and select "1. SunOS/Solaris/Linux/QNX ioctl method" as a Device Interface Method (the other options simply did not work for me).

[4] Known Problems

You cannont control volume with the slide bar.

Jan.22, 1998: this problem was solved by xmcd-2.2-1B when used with wip980113 or later.
When you eject a CD, your display will be screwed up with error messages. You need to insert a CD as soon as possible and do "xrefresh". In stead you can do

# vi /etc/X11/xmcd/config/cdrom
....
exitOnEject: True
....
so that xmcd exits when a cd is ejected.

Jan.22, 1998: this problem too was solved by xmcd-2.2-1B when used with wip980113 or later.

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