Re: PCG-NVR23, playing audio CDs (success)

He would have re-compiled his kernel cause in Gentoo you have to compile 
your kernel on install.

Cheers
Nick

Frank Wylie wrote:

>Tony,
>
>Hi, I have a PGC-NVR23 too and have ripped and played for over 6 months now.
>Glad to hear of your fix.
>
>May I ask what distro you  are running?  Gentoo?
>
>I have installed Suse 8.2 as a dual boot with the included software (wiped
>2nd partition), but am having a lot of problems getting it configured.
>
>Have you gotten ACPI working?  Mine defaulted to APM and every time I try to
>switch to ACPI, my sound card stops working!
>
>Did you recompile your kernel?  Was it hard?
>
>Anyway, any tips you have for this machine would be great!
>
>Thank you.
>
>Frank Wylie
>
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Tony Curtis" <[email protected]>
>To: <[email protected]>
>Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 10:53 PM
>Subject: [Linux-sony] PCG-NVR23, playing audio CDs (success)
>
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>>Hi,
>>
>>I've had a PCG-NVR23 for quite a while now, and one thing I'd never
>>managed to get working was playing audio CDs.  I could rip them, but no
>>sound ever came out from grip or xmms.  A fellow NVR23 owner mentioned
>>something about "digital playback" to me and after some swift googling
>>I discovered the xmms "cdread" plugin (gentoo: emerge xmms-cdread).  I
>>can now play audio CDs after configuring the Output option to "read
>>digital CD audio".  Play file /dev/cdrom.
>>
>>Hope that helps someone out there.
>>
>>(Still no joy with sonypi...)
>>
>>tony
>>
>>
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