How to Configure a System to Play Musical CDs

You can play musical CDs from a CD-ROM attached to your Solaris system. You'll need to access Workman, which is public domain software, and you must attach external speakers or headphones independently to the CD-ROM drive; speakers attached to the system hardware will not work.

Once you configure your system, you can play a musical CD simply by inserting it into the CD-ROM drive. The Workman control panel is automatically displayed on your desktop.

1. Become superuser.

2. Edit /etc/rmmount.conf.

   Add the following line under # Actions, before the cdrom action, as shown in the example below.

   # Actions action cdrom action_workman.so path/workman workman-options

   path	The directory in which you have placed the Workman software.
   workman-options	The options allowed by the Workman software

Example--Configuring a System to Play Musical CDs

This example shows an /etc/rmmount.conf file modified to support the Workman software.

# @(#)rmmount.conf 1.3     96/05/10 SMI
#
# Removable Media Mounter configuration file.
#
 
# File system identification
ident hsfs ident_hsfs.so cdrom
ident ufs ident_ufs.so cdrom floppy rmscsi pcmem
ident pcfs ident_pcfs.so floppy rmscsi pcmem
 
# Actions
action cdrom action_workman.so /usr/dist/exe/workman
action cdrom action_filemgr.so
action floppy action_filemgr.so
action rmscsi action_filemgr.so
 
# File System Sharing
share cdrom*
share floppy*