<!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//KDE//DTD DocBook V3.1-Based Variant V1.0//EN" [ <!ENTITY kappname "&kscd;"> <!ENTITY % English "INCLUDE" -- change language only here --> <!ENTITY % addindex "IGNORE"> <!ENTITY % ents PUBLIC "-//KDE//ENTITIES Documentation V1.0//EN"> %ents; ]> <book lang="&language;"> <bookinfo> <title>The &kscd; Handbook</title> <authorgroup> <author> <firstname>Jonathan</firstname> <surname>Singer</surname> <affiliation><address><email>jsinger@leeta.net</email></address></affiliation> </author> <author> <firstname>David</firstname> <surname>White</surname> <affiliation><address><email>a9403784@unet.univie.ac.at</email></address> </affiliation> </author> <othercredit role="developer"> <firstname>Bernd</firstname> <othername>Johannes</othername> <surname>Wuebben</surname> <affiliation><address><email>wuebben@kde.org</email></address></affiliation> <contrib>Developer</contrib> </othercredit> <othercredit role="developer"> <firstname>Dirk</firstname> <surname>Forsterling</surname> <affiliation><address><email>milliByte@gmx.net</email></address></affiliation> <contrib>Developer</contrib> </othercredit> <othercredit role="developer"> <firstname>Dirk</firstname> <surname>Foersterling</surname> <affiliation><address><email>milliByte@gmx.net</email></address></affiliation> <contrib>Developer</contrib> </othercredit> <othercredit role="reviewer"> <firstname>Lauri</firstname> <surname>Watts</surname> <affiliation><address><email>vampyr@atconnex.net</email></address></affiliation> <contrib>Reviewer</contrib> </othercredit> </authorgroup> <copyright> <year>2000</year> <holder>J Singer</holder> </copyright> <legalnotice>&FDLNotice;</legalnotice> <date>08/02/2001</date> <releaseinfo>1.03.00</releaseinfo> <abstract> <para>&kscd; is a small, fast, <abbrev>CDDB</abbrev> enabled audio <abbrev>CD</abbrev> player for Unix platforms.</para> </abstract> <keywordset> <keyword>KDE</keyword> <keyword>kdemultimedia</keyword> <keyword>kscd</keyword> <keyword>music</keyword> <keyword>CD</keyword> <keyword>audio</keyword> </keywordset> </bookinfo> <chapter id="introduction"> <title>Introduction</title> <para>&kscd; is a fast, <acronym>CDDB</acronym>cddb enabled &CD; player for the Unix platform. &kscd; stands for <quote>The KDE Project's small/simple &CD; player</quote>.</para> <para><emphasis>New</emphasis>: the <filename>workman2cddb.pl</filename> Perl script provided in order to facilitate transition for users of workman.</para> <para>I hope you will enjoy this &CD; player,</para> <para>Bernd Johannes Wuebben</para> <para><email>wuebben@kde.org</email></para> <sect1 id="supported-platforms"> <title>Supported Platforms</title> <para>&kscd; explicitly supports the following platforms:</para> <itemizedlist> <listitem><para>Linux</para></listitem> <listitem><para>FreeBSD</para></listitem> <listitem><para>NetBSD</para></listitem> <listitem><para>BSD386</para></listitem> <listitem><para>Sun</para></listitem> <listitem><para>&Solaris; (including <acronym>cdda</acronym> support)</para></listitem> <listitem><para>&HP-UX;</para></listitem> <listitem><para>&SGI; Irix (including <abbrev>cdda</abbrev> support)</para></listitem> <listitem><para>Sony NEWS</para></listitem> <listitem><para>OSF/1</para></listitem> <listitem><para>Ultrix</para></listitem> </itemizedlist> <para>and should compile on many others with few modifications.</para> </sect1> </chapter> <chapter id="onscreen-fundamentals"> <title>Onscreen fundamentals</title> <sect1 id="basic-operation"> <title>Basic Operation</title> <screenshot> <screeninfo>The &kscd; Interface</screeninfo> <mediaobject> <imageobject> <imagedata fileref="kscd.png" format="PNG"></imageobject> <textobject><phrase>The &kscd; Interface</phrase></textobject> </mediaobject> </screenshot> <para>This is the main window of &kscd;. You should see something like this when you start &kscd;. The controls in this window are explained below, in no particular order.</para> <sect2 id="control-panel"> <title>The Control Panel</title> <screenshot> <screeninfo>The Control Panel</screeninfo> <mediaobject> <imageobject><imagedata fileref="kscd2.png" format="PNG"></imageobject> <textobject><phrase>The Control Panel</phrase></textobject> </mediaobject> </screenshot> <para> This is the main control panel for &kscd;. The function of these buttons should be familiar to anyone who has ever used a &CD; player.</para> <para>The uppermost button in the above diagram toggles between playing and pausing the &CD;. The left button in the second row stops playing the &CD;. The right button in the second row toggles looping, so that the &CD; will start playing again from the beginning when the end of the last audio track is reached. The buttons in the third row advance the &CD; backward (left) or forward (right) 30 seconds. The buttons in the fourth row skip forward (right) or backward (left) to the beginning of the next or previous track. </para> </sect2> <sect2 id="eject"> <title>The <guibutton>eject</guibutton> button</title> <screenshot> <screeninfo>The <guibutton>eject</guibutton> button</screeninfo> <mediaobject> <imageobject><imagedata fileref="kscd2a.png" format="PNG"></imageobject> <textobject><phrase>The eject button</phrase></textobject> </mediaobject> </screenshot> <para>This button ejects the &CD;. Note that the eject button on your &CD-ROM; drive may not respond if an audio &CD; is in the drive and &kscd; is started. Some very old &CD-ROM; drives may not support software eject. You may also have to close the &CD-ROM; drive manually after inserting a new disc.</para> </sect2> <sect2 id="status-display"> <title>The Status display</title> <screenshot> <screeninfo>The Status display</screeninfo> <mediaobject> <imageobject><imagedata fileref="kscd3.png" format="PNG"></imageobject> <textobject><phrase>The Status display</phrase></textobject> </mediaobject> </screenshot> <para>This is the status display. Starting at the top, from right to left, is the main time display (see below for a discussion of the various possible time display modes), the status of the &CD-ROM; drive, the total play time of the audio &CD;, the current volume setting, and the current and maximum track numbers (curr./max.). The bottommost two lines of text display the artist and title of the &CD;, and then the title of the track, assuming that appropriate entries exist in the local or network <acronym>CDDB</acronym> (&CD; Data Base.)</para> </sect2> <sect2 id="time-display-modes"> <title>Time display modes</title> <screenshot> <screeninfo>The time display toggle</screeninfo> <mediaobject> <imageobject><imagedata fileref="kscd4.png" format="PNG"></imageobject> <textobject><phrase>The time display toggle</phrase></textobject> </mediaobject> </screenshot> <!-- LW: Note - I needed the CDATA in the next section, or the double dashes --> <!-- commented out the colon! --> <para>This button toggles between the possible main time display modes. By default, &kscd; displays the elapsed time of the current track, if the &CD; is playing, or either <![ CDATA [ --:--]]> or 00:00 if the &CD; is not playing. Pressing this button toggles in sequence between remaining track time, total elapsed time, and total remaining time.</para> </sect2> <sect2 id="configuration-button"> <title>The <guibutton>Configuration</guibutton> button</title> <screenshot> <screeninfo>The configuration panel</screeninfo> <mediaobject> <imageobject><imagedata fileref="kscd5.png" format="PNG"></imageobject> <textobject><phrase>The configuration panel</phrase></textobject> </mediaobject> </screenshot> <para>This button opens the &kscd; configuration panel. This allows you to configure &kscd; to work on your machine. See <link linkend="configuring-kscd">the configuring &kscd;</link> section, for details about configuring &kscd;</para> </sect2> <sect2 id="cddb-button"> <title>The <guibutton>CDDB</guibutton> button</title> <screenshot> <screeninfo>The <acronym>CDDB</acronym> button</screeninfo> <mediaobject> <imageobject><imagedata fileref="kscd5.png" format="PNG"></imageobject> <textobject><phrase>The <acronym>CDDB</acronym> button</phrase></textobject> </mediaobject> </screenshot> <para> This button opens the <acronym>CDDB</acronym> (Compact Disc Data Base) entry editor panel. </para> <para>The <acronym>CDDB</acronym> can identify your &CD; and often download a list of tracks for that &CD; or load it from the filesystem. See the <link linkend="cddb-editor">&CD; Database Editor</link> section for more details about using this tool.</para> </sect2> <sect2 id="information-button"> <title>The <guibutton>information</guibutton> button</title> <screenshot> <screeninfo>The information button</screeninfo> <mediaobject> <imageobject><imagedata fileref="kscd7.png" format="PNG"></imageobject> <textobject><phrase>The information button</phrase></textobject> </mediaobject> </screenshot> <para> This button will help you search for information about the artist on the Internet. You can find out about performance dates, purchase information, and other information by pressing this button and choosing the appropriate option in the pop-up menu that appears.</para> </sect2> <sect2> <title>The exit button</title> <screenshot> <screeninfo>The exit button</screeninfo> <mediaobject> <imageobject><imagedata fileref="kscd8.png" format="PNG"></imageobject> <textobject><phrase>The exit button</phrase></textobject> </mediaobject> </screenshot> <para> This button closes &kscd;.</para> </sect2> <sect2> <title>The volume slider</title> <screenshot> <screeninfo>The volume slider</screeninfo> <mediaobject> <imageobject><imagedata fileref="kscd9.png" format="PNG"></imageobject> <textobject><phrase>The volume slider</phrase></textobject> </mediaobject> </screenshot> <para> This slider controls the volume of the audio output of the &CD;. Right is louder, left is quieter. If you are playing your &CD; through your sound card, the sound card mixer will affect the playback volume as well.</para> </sect2> <sect2 id="randomise-button"> <title>The randomise button</title> <screenshot> <screeninfo>The randomise button</screeninfo> <mediaobject> <imageobject><imagedata fileref="kscd15.png" format="PNG"></imageobject> <textobject><phrase>The randomise button</phrase></textobject> </mediaobject> </screenshot> <para> This button plays the &CD; tracks in random order. </para> </sect2> <sect2> <title>The track selector</title> <screenshot> <screeninfo>The track selector</screeninfo> <mediaobject> <imageobject><imagedata fileref="kscd11.png" format="PNG"></imageobject> <textobject><phrase>The track selector</phrase></textobject> </mediaobject> </screenshot> <para>This combo box lets you directly select a track to play. </para> </sect2> </sect1> </chapter> <chapter id="configuring-kscd"> <title>Configuring &kscd;</title> <sect1 id="configuration-intro"> <title>The primary configuration window</title> <para>The primary configuration window for &kscd; is a tabbed dialog with four major sections. </para> <itemizedlist> <listitem><para><link linkend="cddb-tab"><guilabel>CDDB</guilabel></link></para></listitem> <listitem><para><link linkend="smtp-options"><guilabel>SMTP Options</guilabel> </link></para></listitem> <listitem><para><link linkend="kscd-options-tab"><guilabel>KSCD options</guilabel></link></para></listitem> <listitem><para><link linkend="about"><guilabel>About</guilabel></link></para></listitem> </itemizedlist> </sect1> <sect1 id="cddb-tab"> <title>The <guilabel>CDDB</guilabel> tab</title> <screenshot> <screeninfo>The <guilabel>CDDB</guilabel> tab of the configuration dialog</screeninfo> <mediaobject> <imageobject> <imagedata fileref="kscd14.png" format="PNG"> </imageobject> <textobject><phrase>The <guilabel>CDDB</guilabel> tab of the configuration dialog</phrase></textobject> </mediaobject> </screenshot> <para> The <guilabel>CDDB</guilabel> tab sets up the <acronym>CDDB</acronym> functions of &kscd;.</para> <para>The <guilabel>Enable Remote CDDB</guilabel> checkbox turns on or off <acronym>CDDB</acronym> lookups over the Internet. The time allowed before the lookup attempt times out can be set. To use an &HTTP; proxy, check the <guilabel>Use HTTP proxy to access CDDB</guilabel> and enter the &URL; in the field below.</para> <para>The <guilabel>CDDB Base Directory</guilabel> text field lets you choose the directory where you want <acronym>CDDB</acronym> entries to be stored locally.</para> <para>The <guilabel>CDDB Server</guilabel> list box shows a list of known <acronym>CDDB</acronym> servers. Select an entry from this list and it will appear in the text field above the selection box. Press the <guibutton>Update</guibutton> button to update the list of servers in the list box. Press the <guibutton>Defaults</guibutton> button to enter the default value, <userinput>freedb.freedb.org 888 -</userinput>, which will permit you to update the list with a fresh list of <acronym>CDDB</acronym> Servers listed with the master <abbrev>CDDB</abbrev> site at <systemitem class="systemname">freedb.freedb.org</systemitem>. Hit the <guibutton>-</guibutton> button to delete the selected entry from the list.</para> <para>The <guilabel>Send CDDB submissions to:</guilabel> field contains the e-mail address to submit <abbrev>CDDB</abbrev> entries to. The default address is <email>freedb-submit@freedb.org</email>. As of version 0.8, <acronym>CDDB</acronym> entries from &kscd; are accepted for inclusion in the database. Hit the <guibutton>-</guibutton> button to delete the selected entry from the list. The <guibutton>Defaults</guibutton> button restores all settings to the default values.The <guibutton>Help</guibutton> button opens the &kscd; help home page (this document).</para> <para><guibutton>OK</guibutton> saves the current settings and exits; <guibutton>Cancel</guibutton> exits without saving. </para> </sect1> <sect1 id="smtp-options"> <title>The <guilabel>SMTP Options</guilabel> tab</title> <screenshot> <screeninfo>The SMTP Options tab</screeninfo> <mediaobject> <imageobject><imagedata fileref="kscd16.png" format="PNG"></imageobject> </mediaobject> </screenshot> <para> The <acronym>SMTP</acronym> options tab sets up connection to a mail server to submit new <acronym>CDDB</acronym> entries. This is useful if you do not have your own system configured as a server. Check <guilabel>Enable submission via SMTP</guilabel> to use this feature. Enter the address of the <acronym>SMTP</acronym> server in the upper left text field and the port number (typically <userinput>25</userinput>) in the upper right field. Enter your own email address in the lower text field. </para> </sect1> <sect1 id="kscd-options-tab"> <title>The <guilabel>KSCD Options</guilabel> tab</title> <screenshot> <screeninfo>The <guilabel>KSCD Options</guilabel> tab</screeninfo> <mediaobject> <imageobject><imagedata fileref="kscd12.png" format="PNG"></imageobject> <textobject><phrase>The <guilabel>KSCD Options</guilabel> tab</phrase></textobject> </mediaobject> </screenshot> <para>The <guilabel>LED Color:</guilabel> and <guilabel>Background Color:</guilabel> fields show the color selected for the foreground and background of the status display. Press the <guibutton>Change</guibutton> button next to the color box to change these colors.</para> <para>The <guilabel>CDROM Device</guilabel> field contains the name of the &CD-ROM; device to be used to play audio &CD;s. The default value is <filename>/dev/cdrom</filename>. The permissions on this device must be set to allow opening this device read-only. Changing the permissions on this device file will in almost all cases require superuser privileges and can be done from the command line, or in the Super User Mode of &konqueror;.</para> <para>The <guilabel>Unix mail command</guilabel> field shows the command used to send new <acronym>CDDB</acronym> entries to the database. The default value is <userinput><command>mail</command> <option>-s <replaceable>%s</replaceable></option></userinput>. You will need to make sure this command will actually send mail to non-local systems if you want to submit <acronym>CDDB</acronym> entries, especially if you access the Internet through a dial-up connection. Check the documentation for your Linux distribution for details. Some Linux distributions that use sendmail to deliver e-mail require only that you enter your mail host into the <guilabel>"Smart" relay host</guilabel> field in <filename>/etc/sendmail.cf</filename>. In addition, the <acronym>CDDB</acronym> site will want to be able to mail you back; it may therefore also be necessary to edit <filename>/etc/sendmail.cf</filename> to ensure that the return address on the submission is valid. Your mileage is likely to vary. If all else fails, use <link linkend="smtp-options">SMTP</link> instead.</para> <para>The <guilabel>WWW-Browser</guilabel> section lets you choose which web browser to use to access the web sites in the <link linkend="information-button">information button</link> menus. You can choose either &konqueror; or a custom browser with the radio buttons. By default, the <guilabel>Use Custom Browser</guilabel> field contains <userinput><command>netscape</command> <option><replaceable>%s</replaceable></option></userinput>, for use with <application>Netscape Navigator</application> or <application>Communicator</application>.</para> <para>The <guilabel>Show Tool Tips</guilabel> checkbox turns tooltips (tiny windows that pop up when the mouse is <quote>parked</quote> briefly over a control) on or off.</para> <para><guilabel>Enable KPanel Docking</guilabel> causes a &kscd; control to appear in the &kicker; panel.</para> <para><guilabel>Play on Tray Close</guilabel> causes &CD; play to start when the tray is closed, with no need to press the <guibutton>Play</guibutton> button.</para> <para><guilabel>Stop Playing on Exit</guilabel> causes &CD; playback to stop when &kscd; is closed.</para> <para><guilabel>Eject on Finish</guilabel> causes the &CD; to be ejected when playback ends.</para> <para><guilabel>Random is Shuffle</guilabel> means that when <link linkend="randomise-button">random play</link> is used, each track is played only once.</para> <para>The <guibutton>Help</guibutton> button opens the &kscd; help contents page.</para> <para><guibutton>OK</guibutton> saves the current settings and exits; <guibutton>Cancel</guibutton> exits without saving.</para> </sect1> <sect1 id="about"> <title>The <guilabel>About</guilabel> tab </title> <para> The <guilabel>About</guilabel> tab displays information about the version of &kscd; you are using and some copyright information. </para> </sect1> </chapter> <chapter id="cddb-editor"> <title>The <guilabel>CD Database Editor</guilabel></title> <screenshot> <screeninfo>The CD Database Editor</screeninfo> <mediaobject> <imageobject><imagedata fileref="kscd13.png" format="PNG"></imageobject> <textobject><phrase>The CD Database Editor</phrase></textobject> </mediaobject> </screenshot> <para>The &CD; Database Editor allows you to modify, download, save, annotate, and upload <link linkend="cddb-support"><acronym>CDDB</acronym> (Compact Disc Data Base)</link> entries.</para> <para>If there is an entry in your local <acronym>CDDB</acronym> tree (see the <link linkend="cddb-tab">CDDB subsection</link> in the Configuration chapter) for the &CD; in your &CD-ROM; drive, or if the disc could be found in the <acronym>CDDB</acronym>, you will see the name of the artist and the title of the &CD; in the <guilabel>Disc Artist / Title</guilabel> field and a list of tracks with song titles in the <guilabel>Track / Time / Title</guilabel> selection box. Otherwise, you will see a list of tracks and play times without titles.</para> <para>You can make an annotation for the entire disc with the <guibutton>Ext Info</guibutton> button next to the <guilabel>Disc Artist / Title</guilabel> field, or for a selected track in the <guilabel>Track / Time /Title</guilabel> selection box with the adjacent <guibutton>Ext Info</guibutton> button. If you select a track in the <guilabel>Track / Time / Title</guilabel> selection box, the title, if present, will appear in the <guilabel>Edit Track Title</guilabel> field below. You can type a title for the track in the box, or edit the entry to suit your needs. Press the <keycap>Return</keycap> key on your keyboard, and the text will appear in the proper line in the selection box.</para> <para>Once all tracks have been given titles and the <guilabel>Disc Artist / Title</guilabel> field has been filled out, you can press the <guibutton>Submit</guibutton> button to send your submission by e-mail to the <acronym>CDDB</acronym>.</para> <para>You will be prompted to select a category for the submission. The <guilabel>Disc ID</guilabel> section displays the 32 bit <acronym>ID</acronym> code used by the <acronym>CDDB</acronym> to identify a compact disc. Above the <acronym>ID</acronym> code is the category of the <guilabel>CDDB</guilabel> entry. These categories correspond to the subdirectories tree of the directory chosen in the <guilabel>CDDB Base Directory</guilabel> in the <link linkend="cddb-tab"><abbrev>CDDB</abbrev> tab</link> of the &kscd; Configuration window.</para> <para>The <guilabel>Total Time:</guilabel> display shows the total play time of the &CD;.</para> <para>The <guilabel>Play List Editor</guilabel> lets you change the play order of a disc. Enter a comma-separated list of track numbers to define a new play order.</para> <para>The <guibutton>Save</guibutton> button writes the displayed record to disk. You will be prompted to select a category under which to save the record. Select a directory and press <guibutton>Ok</guibutton> to finish saving.</para> <para>The <guibutton>Load</guibutton> button will prompt you for a location to look for a <acronym>CDDB</acronym> entry other than a remote <acronym>CDDB</acronym> server or the local <abbrev>CDDB</abbrev> entries in the file system. The <guibutton>Close</guibutton> button closes the &CD; Database Editor without saving.</para> </chapter> <chapter id="using-kscd-in-the-panel"> <title>Using &kscd; in the &kde; Panel</title> <screenshot> <screeninfo>Using &kscd; in the &kde; Panel</screeninfo> <mediaobject> <imageobject><imagedata fileref="kscd18.png" format="PNG"></imageobject> <textobject><phrase>Using &kscd; in the &kde; Panel</phrase></textobject> </mediaobject> </screenshot> <para>When the <guilabel>Enable KPanel Docking</guilabel> box is checked, a small &kscd; applet is also displayed in the <application>KDE panel</application>. Unlike the main &kscd; window, this applet is available on any desktop. <mousebutton>Right</mousebutton> click on the applet to pop up a menu to control &CD; playback. A <mousebutton>left</mousebutton> click on the applet takes you to the main &kscd; window. If the main window is minimized, a <mousebutton>left</mousebutton> click on the applet restores it. </para> <note><para>To be precise, the applet is displayed in the <application>system tray</application> in the panel. If no applet appears when &kscd; is minimized, you may have removed the tray. To add it, <mousebutton>right</mousebutton> click on an empty spot on the panel and select <menuchoice><guisubmenu>Add</guisubmenu> <guisubmenu>Applet</guisubmenu> <guimenuitem>System Tray</guimenuitem> </menuchoice></para></note> </chapter> <chapter id="cddb-support"> <title><acronym>CDDB</acronym> Support</title> <para>The Compact Disc Data Base is a distributed network database accessible over the Internet that contains information about most audio &CD;s in circulation. If you have Internet access, you will likely never have to manually enter track information for your &CD;s if you have this set up properly. See <link linkend="cddb-tab">The CDDB Tab</link> subsection in the configuring &kscd; chapter for detailed instructions on how to configure this service, and the <link linkend="cddb-editor">The CD Database Editor</link> section for instructions on how to edit <acronym>CDDB</acronym> entries.</para> <para>Use of the <acronym>CDDB</acronym> is free. Submissions from users are encouraged.</para> <para>When preparing entries for the <acronym>CDDB</acronym>, please keep the following points in mind:</para> <itemizedlist> <listitem><para>Use <quote>standard</quote> latin characters in the entries. Some special characters are supported, but Cyrillic or Greek alphabet submissions, for example, cannot be accepted.</para></listitem> <listitem><para>Use only one <keysym>/</keysym> character in the <guilabel>Disc Artist / Title</guilabel> field in the &CD; Database Editor.</para> <para>For classical &CD;s, it is standard practice to put the composer's name in the Artist section (before the slash) and the performer's name in the Title section (after the slash).</para></listitem> <listitem><para>If you send an entry that already exists in the database, any additional information you provide may be added to the existing entry.</para> </listitem> </itemizedlist> <para>By default, &kscd; installs the standard <acronym>CDDB</acronym> categories in <filename class="directory">$KDEDIR/share/apps/kscd/cddb</filename>. You can create as many category subdirectories as you like. However, when uploading, only the offical <acronym>CDDB</acronym> categories are displayed. The default upload address is <email>xmcd-cddb@amb.org</email>. For more information about <abbrev>CDDB</abbrev> visit the <abbrev>CDDB</abbrev> homepage.</para> <para>The local <acronym>CDDB</acronym> entry for a particular &CD; is stored in the file <filename><replaceable>category name</replaceable>/<replaceable>disc ID</replaceable></filename> under the <acronym>CDDB</acronym> Base Directory. These files can be edited with any text editor if you have nothing better to do with your spare time.</para> </chapter> <chapter id="questions-and-answers"> <title>Questions and answers</title> <qandaset> <qandaentry> <question><para>I see this dialog when I start &kscd;. What's wrong?</para> <screenshot> <screeninfo>Error dialog</screeninfo> <mediaobject> <imageobject><imagedata fileref="kscd19.png" format ="PNG"></imageobject> <textobject><phrase>Error dialog</phrase></textobject> </mediaobject> </screenshot> </question> <answer><para>This means that &kscd; couldn't open your &CD-ROM; drive. The name of the device in the <guilabel>CDROM Device</guilabel>cdrom field of the <guilabel>Kscd Configuration</guilabel> must actually refer to the block device associated with your &CD-ROM; drive. This will often be a hardlink to the appropriate <acronym>IDE</acronym> (<filename>/dev/hdx</filename>) or <acronym>SCSI</acronym> (<filename>/dev/sdx</filename>) device.</para> <para> The device file normally belongs to user root in group root, and does not allow normal users to open it for reading, writing, or execution directly. This has <emphasis>nothing</emphasis> to do with the <application>SUID</application> (Set User <acronym>ID</acronym> programs use the <function>setuid()</function> function in the standard Un*x library to assume the identity of another user) <command>mount</command> command, which has no problems with permissions; &kscd; must be able to get a read-only file descriptor referring to the &CD; device to control the &CD-ROM; drive and read raw data off the disk.</para> <para> If you have the root password, you can fix this quickly and easily. Become root and type <userinput><command>chmod</command> <option>a+r</option> <filename><replaceable>/dev/cdrom</replaceable></filename></userinput> to allow any user on your system to read from <filename>/dev/cdrom</filename>. If your &CD-ROM; device is called something else, change the permissions on that device with the same procedure. If you don't have the root password, ask your system administrator nicely to give you read permission for the &CD-ROM; device.</para> <para>See also the chapter on <link linkend="configuring-kscd">configuring KSCD </link></para></answer> </qandaentry> <qandaentry> <question><para>I can't get the <acronym>CDDB</acronym> to work. Can I get any detailed information about what may be going wrong?</para></question> <answer><para>If you experience trouble with the <acronym>CDDB</acronym> functionality try to starting &kscd; from the command line with the <option>-d</option> switch and observe the debug output.</para></answer> </qandaentry> </qandaset> </chapter> <chapter id="credits-and-license"> <title>Credits and licenses</title> <para>&kscd; Copyright 1997,1998 Bernd Johannes Wuebben <email>wuebben@kde.org</email>wuebben></para> <para>&kscd; contains code from: </para> <itemizedlist> <listitem><para><application>workman</application> 1.4 beta 3 Copyright (c) Steven Grimm <email>koreth@hyperion.com</email></para></listitem> </itemizedlist> <para>Special thanks to Ti Kan and Steve Scherf, the inventors of the <acronym>CDDB</acronym> database concept. Visit <ulink url="http://www.cddb.com/">http://ww.cddb.com</ulink> for more information on <acronym>CDDB</acronym>.</para> <para>A very special thank you also to David White who wrote the original &kscd; help documention. Great Job David!</para> <para>Documentation updated for KDE 2.0, and copyright by Jonathan Singer <email>jsinger@leeta.net.</email></para> &underFDL; &underGPL; </chapter> <appendix id="installation"> <title>Installation</title> <sect1 id="how-to-obtain-kscd"> <title>How to obtain &kscd;</title> <para>&kscd; is part of the <ulink url="http://www.kde.org/">KDE Project</ulink>. &kscd; can be found in the kdemultimedia package on <ulink url="ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/">ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/</ulink>, the main ftp site of the KDE project. </para> </sect1> <sect1 id="requirements"> <title>Requirements</title> <para>In order to successfully compile &kscd;, you need the latest versions of the KDE libraries as well as the &Qt; C++ library. All required libraries as well as &kscd; itself can be found at the KDE &FTP; site, <ulink url="ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/">ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/</ulink>.</para> </sect1> <sect1 id="compilation-and-installation"> <title>Compilation and Installation</title> <para>In order to compile and install &kscd; on your system, type the following in the base directory of the &kscd; distribution:</para> <screen width="40"> <prompt>%</prompt> <userinput><command>./configure</command></userinput> <prompt>%</prompt> <userinput><command>make</command></userinput> <lineannotation>Then as root: </lineannotation> <prompt>%</prompt> <userinput><command>make</command> <option>install</option></userinput> </screen> <para>Please inform the current maintainer, Dirk Foersterling, at <email>milliByte@gmlx.net</email> of any modification you had to undertake in order to get &kscd; to compile on your platform.</para> </sect1> </appendix> <![ %addindex; [ &documentation.index; ]]> </book> <!-- Local Variables: mode: sgml sgml-minimize-attributes: nil sgml-general-insert-case: lower End: -->