awhitton@bwdlh128.BNR.CA (Alan Whitton) (04/12/91)
Greetings: Someone at HP has most graciously got me a binary copy of XCD which "should" work with my HP-IB CD-ROM player. Well it doesn't . Does anyone have the source for this? If so please contact me. Currently my set up is: HP-UX xxx 7.05 A 9000/360 xxx CD-ROM Device: crwxrwxrwx 1 root other 4 0x070200 Apr 10 16:07 /dev/rdsk/cdrom Yet when I run xcd it complains about how the cd player is neither scsi nor HP-IB: CD device (/dev/rdsk/cdrom) is not SCSI or HPIB. Please help! Alan Whitton -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- BNR Ottawa Disclaimer: "This is only my opinion" BITNET: awhitton@bnr.ca OR UUCP: ...uunet!bnrgate!forum!awhitton
ken@hpcupt3.cup.hp.com (Kenneth M. Sumrall) (04/15/91)
>Someone at HP has most graciously got me a binary copy of XCD which >"should" work with my HP-IB CD-ROM player. Well it doesn't . Does >anyone have the source for this? If so please contact me. > >CD-ROM Device: >crwxrwxrwx 1 root other 4 0x070200 Apr 10 16:07 /dev/rdsk/cdrom > >CD device (/dev/rdsk/cdrom) is not SCSI or HPIB. > >Please help! > It "should" work, and it "does" work with an HP-IB CD-ROM drive. The user "should" use the correct device file. You must run the CD-ROM drive off of an HP-IB DIL device file, not the CS-80 device file. Here is a man page I made for xcd, which also describes the device file you need. | Ken Sumrall | Internet: ken%hpda@hplabs.hp.com | | HP California Language Labs | UUCP: ...!hplabs!hpda!ken | | "I'd stomp desert dope heads for some gas in my moped!" - Bill the Cat | | "What a stupid world" -Calvin (speaking to Hobbes) | #---------------------------------- cut here ---------------------------------- # This is a shell archive. Remove anything before this line, # then unpack it by saving it in a file and typing "sh file". # # Wrapped by Kenneth M. Sumrall <ken@hpcupt3> on Sun Apr 14 22:19:40 1991 # # This archive contains: # xcd.1 # # Error checking via wc(1) will be performed. # Error checking via sum(1) will be performed. LANG=""; export LANG PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:$PATH; export PATH if sum -r </dev/null >/dev/null 2>&1 then sumopt='-r' else sumopt='' fi echo x - xcd.1 cat >xcd.1 <<'@EOF' .TH XCD 1 EXPERIMENTAL .CM 1 .SH "NAME" xcd \- Control playback of audio CD's in CD-ROM drive .SH "SYNOPSIS" .B xcd [ .I device_file ] .SH "DESCRIPTION" .I Xcd is an X11 based tool that controls the playback of audio CD's in a Hewlett-Packard CD-ROM drive. If \fBxcd\fR is invoked with no arguments, it attempts to control the CD-ROM drive referenced by the device file \fI/dev/rscsi\fR. If another device file should be used, it should be given as the first argument on the command line. The device file for the HP-IB CD-ROM drive is created as follows: .nf mknod /dev/file_name c 21 0xSC1fBA where SC is the select code of the HP-IB interface and BA is the bus address of the CD-ROM drive. BA must be in the range 0-7. .fi The device file for the SCSI CD-ROM drive is created as follows: .nf mknod /dev/file_name c 47 0xSCBA00 where SC is the select code of the SCSI interface and BA is the interrupt level set on the CD-ROM drive. BA must be in the range 0-6. .fi After the \fIxcd\fR window pops up, it takes a few moments for it to read the table of contents off of the disk. During this time, the buttons are inactive. When \fIxcd\fR has finished reading the table of contents, it adds a control panel showing the number of tracks on the disk. It there is not a CD in the drive when \fIxcd\fR starts up, there is no delay. The control panel has several buttons. Their use is described below: .PP .TP 8 .B PLAY Start playing the CD in the player. .PP .TP 8 .B PAUSE Temporarily stop playing the music in the player. Click on this button again to start where the music stopped. .PP .TP 8 .B STOP Stop playing the CD. If you click on this twice after the CD has stopped, \fIxcd\fR terminates. .PP .TP 8 .B EJECT Eject the CD on models that support this feature. .PP .TP 8 .B SHUFFLE Randomly order the selected tracks when the \fBPLAY\fR button is pressed. Click \fBSHUFFLE\fR again to turn this feature off. .PP .TP 8 .B REPEAT Start playing the CD again when the last track is finished. Click this button again to turn this feature off. .PP .TP 8 .B MARK Press the left mouse button to remember the current position in the song. Then, to go back to that position, press the right mouse button. To clear the mark, first \fBSTOP\fR the CD, then click the left mouse button on the \fBMARK\fR button. .PP While the CD is playing, the current track number, current index number and the time are displayed on the control panel. Clicking the left mouse button on the track number will go down one track. Likewise, clicking the right mouse button on the track number will go up one track. Clicking the middle mouse button on the track number will go back to the beginning of the current track. The same mouse clicks are used in the box to the right of the current track number to control the current index. .PP Above the time display is a label stating what the time means. Clicking on this label changes the time display between four modes. They are, "Track Time Remaining", "Track Time", "Program Time Remaining", and "Program Time". Underneath the time display is a sliding bar which graphically displays the amount of time played on the track or program so far. Clicking the mouse button in this window will skip to that relative position in the song or program, depending on what time display mode is active. .PP Clicking on the \fBDISPLAY\fR button will close the control panel, and bring up a mini control panel with just the track, index and time display just described. .PP The \fBPROGRAM\fR button brings up the programming screen. In this screen you can type in the disk title, artist's name, and track titles. After you have entered all of these names, pressing the \fBSTORE\fR button will store this information in the file \fB.cdinfo\fR in you home directory. The next time you insert a CD into the CD-ROM drive, this information will be automatically loaded and displayed. The long text bar below the track and time display will show the current track title, disc title, or artist name. To change what is displayed in this box, click on the label that identifies that box. .PP Clicking on the track numbers identifying each track on the bottom of the display will program the order in which the tracks are played. The left mouse button will add that track to the play order, and the right mouse button will remove that track from the play order. The play order is displayed just beneath the \fBPLAY\fR button up top. The \fBRESET\fR button removes all track entries from the play order, and the \fBSELECT ALL\fR button adds all tracks to the play order. .PP The following buttons have these affects. .PP .TP 8 .B LOAD FTS\fR Still needs to be documented. .PP .TP 8 .B SPLIT Still needs to be documented. .PP .TP 8 .B CUSTOM Still needs to be documented. .SH X DEFAULTS .PP .TP 8 .B ButtonFont Specifies the font used for the control buttons. Default: hp8.10x20 .PP .TP 8 .B ButtonFGColor Specifies the foreground color of the buttons. Default: White .PP .TP 8 .B ButtonBGColor Specifies the foreground color of the buttons. Default: firebrick .PP .TP 8 .B Text1Font Specifies which font to use for the larger font. Default: hp8.10x20 .PP .TP 8 .B Text1FGColor Specifies the foreground color of the larger font. Default: White .PP .TP 8 .B Text1BGColor Specifies the background color of the larger font: Default: Black .PP .TP 8 .B Text2Font Specifies which font to use for the smaller font. Default: hp8.8x16 .PP .TP 8 .B Text2FGColor Specifies the foreground color of the smaller font. Default: White .PP .TP 8 .B Text2BGColor Specifies the background color of the smaller font: Default: Black .PP .TP 8 .B LabelFont Specifies the font used to label text areas. Default: hp8.8x16 .PP .TP 8 .B LabelFGColor Specifies the foreground color of the label font. Default: White .PP .TP 8 .B LabelBGColor Specifies the background color of the label font. Default: firebrick .PP .TP 8 .B DisplayFont Specifies the font used to display track and time information. Default: fqxb-25 .PP .TP 8 .B DisplayFGColor Specifies the foreground color of the track and time display. Default: Green .PP .TP 8 .B DisplayBGColor Specifies the foreground color of the track and time display. Default: Black .PP .TP 8 .B ReverseVideo Reverses colors on monochrome displays if set to On. Default: Off .PP .TP 8 .B Background Specifies the background color of the entire control panel. Default: DimGrey .PP .TP 8 .B Border Specifies the color of the button borders. Default: White .PP .TP 8 .B XPos Specifies the initial X position of the control panel. .PP .TP 8 .B YPos Specifies the initial Y position of the control panel. .PP .TP 8 .B MiniXPos Specifies the initial X position of the mini control panel. .PP .TP 8 .B MiniYPos Specifies the initial Y position of the mini control panel. .PP .TP 8 .B GlobalPauseKeySym Specifies which keyboard key will cause the CD to pause, when that keyboard key is pressed. This key will cause the CD to pause even if the mouse is not in the \fIxcd\fR window. This is specified as a hexadecimal number pulled from the file \fI/usr/include/X11/keysymdef.h\fR. For example, on the HP 46021A keyboard, if the upper right unmarked key on the keypad is to be used for the pause feature, then looking in the file \fI/usr/include/X11/keysymdef.h\fR shows that the key XK_KP_F4 is associated with hexadecimal value 0xFF94. Default: None .SH FILES .PD 0 .TP 27 .SM /dev/rscsi Default CD-ROM device file. .TP .SM $HOME/.cdinfo Contains title and artist information. .SH BUGS \fIXcd\fR requires a color display to run. If \fIxcd\fR is run on an SCSI device, it must be suid to root to assume control of the SCSI device. .SH AUTHOR .TP \fIXcd\fR was written by John Marvin <jsm@hpfcls.fc.hp.com>. @EOF set `sum $sumopt <xcd.1`; if test $1 -ne 50161 then echo ERROR: xcd.1 checksum is $1 should be 50161 fi set `wc -lwc <xcd.1` if test $1$2$3 != 25513537795 then echo ERROR: wc results of xcd.1 are $* should be 255 1353 7795 fi chmod 644 xcd.1 exit 0
campbelr@hpcuhe.cup.hp.com (Bob Campbell) (04/16/91)
> Someone at HP has most graciously got me a binary copy of XCD which > "should" work with my HP-IB CD-ROM player. Well it doesn't . Does > anyone have the source for this? If so please contact me. If you have a copy of the xcd program I am familiar with, then the short answer is "No!" The author wasn't all that excited when it was released internally. A future copy may be available through the usual "no support" methods, but it isn't for me to say. Xcd as it now exists is not the most stable of programs. In use on a 350 it is restarted often, can sometimes hang and once (possibly due to a bad CD-ROM drive) was involved with a system panic with root disc corruption. If you still want to use xcd, please contact me if you have questions. I assume that the author will post when and if he wants to get involved. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bob Campbell Some times I wish that I could stop you from campbelr@hpda.cup.hp.com talking, when I hear the silly things you say. Hewlett Packard - Elvis Costello
munir@hpfcmgw.HP.COM (Munir Mallal) (04/16/91)
> crwxrwxrwx 1 root other 4 0x070200 Apr 10 16:07 /dev/rdsk/cdrom
Try: 21 0x070200
also, I believe the program wants to be suid Root, since it likes to do
special ioctls.
Good Luck.