[gentoo-amd64] Can anyone help please - CD error

[gentoo-amd64] Can anyone help please - CD error

[Paul Stear]

Hi,
I have asked this question but no response.  I am stumped, if I insert a normal 
music CD into the drive, KsCD reports no disc, dmesg reports:-

sr 6:0:0:0: [sr0] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE
sr 6:0:0:0: [sr0] Sense Key : Illegal Request [current]
sr 6:0:0:0: [sr0] Add. Sense: Illegal mode for this track
sr 6:0:0:0: [sr0] CDB: Read(10): 28 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 40 00
end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 0
__ratelimit: 23 callbacks suppressed
Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 0
Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 1
Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 2
Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 3
Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 4
Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 5
Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 6
Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 7
Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 8
Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 9
sr 6:0:0:0: [sr0] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE
sr 6:0:0:0: [sr0] Sense Key : Illegal Request [current]
sr 6:0:0:0: [sr0] Add. Sense: Illegal mode for this track
sr 6:0:0:0: [sr0] CDB: Read(10): 28 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 02 00
end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 0

I have also tried kaffeine and get an error "Cannot find input plugin for MRL 
[cdda:/]"
If I select "Play audio CD with amarok", amarok doesn't even start but amarok 
works for my mp3 collection and starts normally from the main menu,
Also alsaplayer just produces a bouncing icon but doesn't start.

I am using kde4.3.4 and Portage 2.1.7.16 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop, 
gcc-4.3.4, glibc-2.11-r1, 2.6.32-gentoo-r1 x86_64)

Thank you for any help
Paul
-- 
This message has been sent using kmail on gentoo.

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Can anyone help please - CD error

[BRM]

There's a kernel driver or application you are missing. I ran into a similar error before and it took me quite a while to track it down.
Sorry, I can't remember what it was that I installed/did to get it to finally work.

Ben



----- Original Message ----
From: Paul Stear <gentoo@appjaws.plus.com>
To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org
Sent: Tue, January 5, 2010 9:22:17 AM
Subject: [gentoo-amd64] Can anyone help please - CD error

Hi,
I have asked this question but no response.  I am stumped, if I insert a normal 
music CD into the drive, KsCD reports no disc, dmesg reports:-

sr 6:0:0:0: [sr0] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE
sr 6:0:0:0: [sr0] Sense Key : Illegal Request [current]
sr 6:0:0:0: [sr0] Add. Sense: Illegal mode for this track
sr 6:0:0:0: [sr0] CDB: Read(10): 28 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 40 00
end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 0
__ratelimit: 23 callbacks suppressed
Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 0
Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 1
Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 2
Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 3
Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 4
Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 5
Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 6
Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 7
Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 8
Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 9
sr 6:0:0:0: [sr0] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE
sr 6:0:0:0: [sr0] Sense Key : Illegal Request [current]
sr 6:0:0:0: [sr0] Add. Sense: Illegal mode for this track
sr 6:0:0:0: [sr0] CDB: Read(10): 28 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 02 00
end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 0

I have also tried kaffeine and get an error "Cannot find input plugin for MRL 
[cdda:/]"
If I select "Play audio CD with amarok", amarok doesn't even start but amarok 
works for my mp3 collection and starts normally from the main menu,
Also alsaplayer just produces a bouncing icon but doesn't start.

I am using kde4.3.4 and Portage 2.1.7.16 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop, 
gcc-4.3.4, glibc-2.11-r1, 2.6.32-gentoo-r1 x86_64)

Thank you for any help
Paul
-- 
This message has been sent using kmail on gentoo.

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Can anyone help please - CD error

[Stan Sander]

[-- Attachment #1: Type: Text/Plain, Size: 753 bytes --]

On Tuesday 05 January 2010 07:33:36 BRM wrote:
> There's a kernel driver or application you are missing. I ran into a
>  similar error before and it took me quite a while to track it down. Sorry,
>  I can't remember what it was that I installed/did to get it to finally
>  work.
> 
> Ben
> 

I've not seen this before, and mine is working on a system similar to yours, 
so perhaps this comparison will help.   Here is what I found in my kernel 
configs that relates to the CD as far as I can tell.

CONFIG_CDROM_PKTCDVD=m

CONFIG_ISO9660_FS=m
CONFIG_JOLIET=y
CONFIG_ZISOFS=y
CONFIG_UDF_FS=m
CONFIG_UDF_NLS=y

-- 
Stan & HD Tashi Grad 10/08  Edgewood, NM  SWR
PR - Cindy and Jenny - Sammamish, WA  NWR
http://www.sblan.net/tashi

[-- Attachment #2: This is a digitally signed message part. --]
[-- Type: application/pgp-signature, Size: 198 bytes --]

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Can anyone help please - CD error

[BRM]

----- Original Message ----
> From: Stan Sander <stsander@sblan.net>
> To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org
> Sent: Tue, January 5, 2010 3:08:32 PM
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Can anyone help please - CD error
> 
> On Tuesday 05 January 2010 07:33:36 BRM wrote:
> > There's a kernel driver or application you are missing. I ran into a
> >  similar error before and it took me quite a while to track it down. Sorry,
> >  I can't remember what it was that I installed/did to get it to finally
> >  work.
> > 
> > Ben
> > 
> 
> I've not seen this before, and mine is working on a system similar to yours, 
> so perhaps this comparison will help.   Here is what I found in my kernel 
> configs that relates to the CD as far as I can tell.
> 
> CONFIG_CDROM_PKTCDVD=m

I have:

CONFIG_CDROM_PKTCDVD=y
CONFIG_CDROM_PKTCDVD_BUFFERS=8
# CONFIG_CDROM_PKTCDVD_WCACHE is not set

Also have:

CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECD=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECD_VERBOSE_ERRORS=y

But those are not likely it. It's likely with the File Systems...

> CONFIG_ISO9660_FS=m
> CONFIG_JOLIET=y
> CONFIG_ZISOFS=y
> CONFIG_UDF_FS=m
> CONFIG_UDF_NLS=y

I have all of these as 'y', no modules. Check to make sure the UDF and ISO9660 file system modules are loaded. Your issue may be that they are not being loaded for some reason.

I also have:

CONFIG_UFS_FS=y

While I could be wrong, I believe some CD/DVD producers use the UFS file system on the discs, so while it's not directly listed under the CD/DVD stuff, it may still be important.

Now this is all on my x86 32-bit laptop but it should still be roughly the same. I do remember having the issue on both my laptop and my AMD64 system (which I don't have on at the moment).

Any how..there's a few things for you to try.

HTH,

Ben

[gentoo-amd64] Re: Can anyone help please - CD error

[Duncan]

BRM posted on Tue, 05 Jan 2010 18:53:06 -0800 as excerpted:

> I have:
> 
> CONFIG_CDROM_PKTCDVD=y
> CONFIG_CDROM_PKTCDVD_BUFFERS=8
> # CONFIG_CDROM_PKTCDVD_WCACHE is not set

AFAIK, that's for packet data, not audio or ISO9660 filesystem, both of 
which are stream based (disk or session at once), not packet based.  
Normal CDs are stream based as well (by default), tho CD_RAM rewritables 
are packet based I believe.  DVDs are setup to be packet-written (UDF, 
see below), tho they typically are written as a stream, anyway

So basically
> Also have:
> 
> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECD=y
> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECD_VERBOSE_ERRORS=y

IDE is legacy/deprecated.  The PATA/SATA drivers are current (yes, even 
tho PATA is still classified experimental).  Unless you need to use IDE 
drivers for something not yet supported by the libata based drivers, you 
should really switch over to the libata/PATA/SATA drivers and turn off 
the entire IDE subsystem.  At your leisure, of course, but I'd strongly 
consider checking it out the next time you upgrade your kernel... Unless 
you know you need it for legacy IDE drive controllers, of course.

> But those are not likely it. It's likely with the File Systems...
> 
>> CONFIG_ISO9660_FS=m
>> CONFIG_JOLIET=y
>> CONFIG_ZISOFS=y
>> CONFIG_UDF_FS=m
>> CONFIG_UDF_NLS=y
> 
> I have all of these as 'y', no modules. Check to make sure the UDF and
> ISO9660 file system modules are loaded. Your issue may be that they are
> not being loaded for some reason.

ISO9660 was the CDROM default, tho IIRC it's not used for CDA/CDAudio.  
Joliet (AKA CDFS) is the MS backed ISO9660 additional metadata (long-
filename/lfn, pure unextended ISO9660 allows 31-char filenames only, with 
certain other restrictions as well) extension, while RockRidge is the *ix 
based parallel, which includes POSIX file permissions as well as the 
longer filenames.  Most folks have both enabled, to read CD/DVDs created 
with either (and many people will include both extensions on their CD/
DVDs, too), tho MS-only folks could probably get along with Joliet-only, 
and *ix-only folks could get along with RockRidge only if they don't care 
about compatibility or reading MS platform authored disks.

ZISOFS is simply gzip-compressed ISOs, I believe.

UDF, Universal Disk Format, was to be the successor to ISO9660, and is 
what is used on DVDs by default (tho many/most are dual ISO9660/UDF as 
their data format is compatible, it's the metadata location and format 
that differs).  As mentioned above, it can be packet-based or stream-
based.  The original/plain UDF spec allowed for packet-based, but the 
physical/practical limits of optical disc media make that difficult.  
There's two additional forms of it, VAT and Spared, the latter being the 
most practical for most RW media.  Unfortunately, UDF support is often 
only plain, particularly in older DVD players, etc, not VAT or Spared.

> I also have:
> 
> CONFIG_UFS_FS=y
> 
> While I could be wrong, I believe some CD/DVD producers use the UFS file
> system on the discs, so while it's not directly listed under the CD/DVD
> stuff, it may still be important.

AFAIK (and wikipedia backs it up, BTW, there's interesting wiki articles 
on UDF, packet writing, ISO9660, etc, as well), UFS, Unix File System, 
aka Berkeley Fast File System (FFS), has little or nothing to do with 
optical media.  According to wikipedia, the Sony Playstations v 2 & 3 use 
UDF, but on the hard drive not on optical media.

So you're probably getting UDF (universal disk format, optical) and UFS 
(Unix File System, normally conventional magnetic hard drives) mixed up, 
as I often do myself except I knew I was doing so and could therefore 
look it up if necessary (as I finally did just now).  But since I did 
finally look them up, and in doing so I found out that UFS is Unix 
filesystem, I think/hope I'll be able to keep them straight now, or at 
least straighter.

-- 
Duncan - List replies preferred.   No HTML msgs.
"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master --
and if you use the program, he is your master."  Richard Stallman

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Can anyone help please - CD error

[Martin Herrman]

On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 3:22 PM, Paul Stear <gentoo@appjaws.plus.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I have asked this question but no response.  I am stumped, if I insert a normal
> music CD into the drive, KsCD reports no disc, dmesg reports:-
>
> sr 6:0:0:0: [sr0] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE
> sr 6:0:0:0: [sr0] Sense Key : Illegal Request [current]
> sr 6:0:0:0: [sr0] Add. Sense: Illegal mode for this track
> sr 6:0:0:0: [sr0] CDB: Read(10): 28 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 40 00
> end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 0
> __ratelimit: 23 callbacks suppressed
> Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 0
> Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 1
> Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 2
> Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 3
> Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 4
> Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 5
> Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 6
> Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 7
> Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 8
> Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 9
> sr 6:0:0:0: [sr0] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE
> sr 6:0:0:0: [sr0] Sense Key : Illegal Request [current]
> sr 6:0:0:0: [sr0] Add. Sense: Illegal mode for this track
> sr 6:0:0:0: [sr0] CDB: Read(10): 28 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 02 00
> end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 0
>
> I have also tried kaffeine and get an error "Cannot find input plugin for MRL
> [cdda:/]"
> If I select "Play audio CD with amarok", amarok doesn't even start but amarok
> works for my mp3 collection and starts normally from the main menu,
> Also alsaplayer just produces a bouncing icon but doesn't start.
>
> I am using kde4.3.4 and Portage 2.1.7.16 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop,
> gcc-4.3.4, glibc-2.11-r1, 2.6.32-gentoo-r1 x86_64)
>
> Thank you for any help
> Paul

I assume that you have tried a different music CD as well? (it is a
bought one, not a copy?) Does it have multimedia extra's, or an
application to get bonus materials from the internet? Does it have any
copy protection?

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Can anyone help please - CD error

[sean]

I recently installed KDE to try it out and KsCD does not work for me either.
It always reports no CD.
The optical drive works for every thing else I need it to do.
I have not done any troubleshooting because I do not use the KsCD program.

		Sean

[gentoo-amd64] Re: Can anyone help please - CD error

[Duncan]

sean posted on Tue, 05 Jan 2010 19:29:12 -0500 as excerpted:

> I recently installed KDE to try it out and KsCD does not work for me
> either. It always reports no CD.
> The optical drive works for every thing else I need it to do. I have not
> done any troubleshooting because I do not use the KsCD program.

There's a number of people with that issue, including me, both here and 
on the kde lists.  FWIW, "the application formerly known as kcontrol", 
now wayyy too generically known as "systemsettings" to be practical, has 
some settings that kscd should honor, including the device for audio CDs 
(see under advanced user settings, audio CDs).  However, I've not had 
time to look into it and thus don't know if screwing with that would fix 
it, or not.  However, I think there's other bugs there as well, as 
there's sure a lot of folks with the problem, for it to be simply a 
misconfigured kcontrol setting.

I don't know if that's fixed for kde 4.4, now in beta with the release 
scheduled for February (don't know when in February), or not, but there's 
a significant number of other fixes, including, it is said, the one that 
prevents me from using the kde graphical randr (display, size and 
orientation) to manage my multiple displays, since it's missing the 
critical "position" setting, here and apparently on many Radeon graphics 
chip based systems.  I'm predicting that it should finally bring kde4 
into what I'd call release candidate status (with 4.5 comparable to most 
projects' X.0 releases, the kde folks /claim/ that kde 4.2 was ready for 
normal use... and maybe it was... for the devs they seem to be targeting 
now, but DEFINITELY not for ordinary people using it for real work), so 
I'm SERIOUSLY looking forward to it.

-- 
Duncan - List replies preferred.   No HTML msgs.
"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master --
and if you use the program, he is your master."  Richard Stallman

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Can anyone help please - CD error

[Paul Stear]

<snip>
Thank you to Duncan, Sean, BRM & Stan for your help.
I guess I'll just have to wait for the next version of kde.

Did you have any thoughts on why alsa player will not start, could it be the 
same problem?
Anyway thanks again
Paul

-- 
This message has been sent using kmail on gentoo.

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Can anyone help please - CD error

[Mark Knecht]

On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 7:40 AM, Paul Stear <gentoo@appjaws.plus.com> wrote:
> <snip>
> Thank you to Duncan, Sean, BRM & Stan for your help.
> I guess I'll just have to wait for the next version of kde.
>
> Did you have any thoughts on why alsa player will not start, could it be the
> same problem?
> Anyway thanks again
> Paul

Paul,
   I'm late to the discussion. My apologies.

   If you have time and still have interest then try opening a
terminal and doing the following as root:

1) Remove all CD and do the following:


MacMini # cdda2wav
No target specified, trying to find one...
Using dev=1000,1,0.
Type: ROM, Vendor 'MATSHITA' Model 'DVD-R   UJ-845  ' Revision 'D8PB' MMC+CDDA
load cdrom please and press enter

If the device it found is reasonable then note the numbers. If it
finds no device that's something completely different.

2) Assuming it found a device then do the following commands:

cd
mkdir test1
cd test1
cdda2wav dev=1000,1,0 -vall -B -Owav -paranoia -speed=6

Paranoia is optional but I'd suggest keeping it as it checks for
things that would effect copying and playing a CD perfectly. Speed=6
is slow but is what I use for copies on this specific machine. I find
that different drives work far better when run slowly.

If the process works it will copy the audio CD to wave files in this
directory. If there are problems then post the results back to the
list and we'll attempt to deal with them. I will say that nearly all
of my drives have required at one time or another firmware upgrades.
Once we know what's in your machine and whether you have Windows or OS
X on the machine then we can determine if you can even do a firmware
upgrade.

Hope this helps,
Mark

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Can anyone help please - CD error

[Paul Stear]

Hello Mark, thanks for your help,
<snip>
> MacMini # cdda2wav
> No target specified, trying to find one...
> Using dev=1000,1,0.
> Type: ROM, Vendor 'MATSHITA' Model 'DVD-R   UJ-845  ' Revision 'D8PB'
>  MMC+CDDA load cdrom please and press enter
Found 6,0,0 and 6,0,1 cd/dvdrw drives :-
Type: ROM, Vendor 'TSSTcorp' Model 'CDDVDW SH-S222A ' Revision 'SB01' MMC+CDDA

I Ran
cd
 mkdir test1
 cd test1
 cdda2wav dev=6,0,0 -vall -B -Owav -paranoia -speed=6
A CD is now being recorded, it's now on track 10

I know you were late to this discussion but I have been able to copy the CD 
and/or convert to mp3 using k3b

The issue is getting a cd to play.  This is the error from dmesg when I load a 
CD:-
sr 6:0:0:0: [sr0] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE
sr 6:0:0:0: [sr0] Sense Key : Illegal Request [current]
sr 6:0:0:0: [sr0] Add. Sense: Illegal mode for this track
sr 6:0:0:0: [sr0] CDB: Read(10): 28 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 40 00
end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 0
__ratelimit: 23 callbacks suppressed
Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 0
Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 1
Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 2
Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 3
Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 4
Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 5
Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 6
Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 7
Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 8
Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 9
sr 6:0:0:0: [sr0] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE
sr 6:0:0:0: [sr0] Sense Key : Illegal Request [current]
sr 6:0:0:0: [sr0] Add. Sense: Illegal mode for this track
sr 6:0:0:0: [sr0] CDB: Read(10): 28 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 02 00
end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 0

The 2 drives are identical and show up as /dev/sr0 and dev/sr1
<snip>

again thanks for help
Paul

-- 
This message has been sent using kmail on gentoo.

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Can anyone help please - CD error

[Mark Knecht]

On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 3:26 AM, Paul Stear <gentoo@appjaws.plus.com> wrote:
> Hello Mark, thanks for your help,
> <snip>
>> MacMini # cdda2wav
>> No target specified, trying to find one...
>> Using dev=1000,1,0.
>> Type: ROM, Vendor 'MATSHITA' Model 'DVD-R   UJ-845  ' Revision 'D8PB'
>>  MMC+CDDA load cdrom please and press enter
> Found 6,0,0 and 6,0,1 cd/dvdrw drives :-
> Type: ROM, Vendor 'TSSTcorp' Model 'CDDVDW SH-S222A ' Revision 'SB01' MMC+CDDA
>
> I Ran
> cd
>  mkdir test1
>  cd test1
>  cdda2wav dev=6,0,0 -vall -B -Owav -paranoia -speed=6
> A CD is now being recorded, it's now on track 10
>
> I know you were late to this discussion but I have been able to copy the CD
> and/or convert to mp3 using k3b
>
> The issue is getting a cd to play.  This is the error from dmesg when I load a
> CD:-
> sr 6:0:0:0: [sr0] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE
> sr 6:0:0:0: [sr0] Sense Key : Illegal Request [current]
> sr 6:0:0:0: [sr0] Add. Sense: Illegal mode for this track
> sr 6:0:0:0: [sr0] CDB: Read(10): 28 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 40 00
> end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 0
> __ratelimit: 23 callbacks suppressed
> Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 0
> Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 1
> Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 2
> Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 3
> Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 4
> Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 5
> Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 6
> Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 7
> Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 8
> Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 9
> sr 6:0:0:0: [sr0] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE
> sr 6:0:0:0: [sr0] Sense Key : Illegal Request [current]
> sr 6:0:0:0: [sr0] Add. Sense: Illegal mode for this track
> sr 6:0:0:0: [sr0] CDB: Read(10): 28 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 02 00
> end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 0
>
> The 2 drives are identical and show up as /dev/sr0 and dev/sr1
> <snip>
>
> again thanks for help
> Paul

Paul,
   OK, this is interesting information.

   Please correct me if I'm wrong but this sort of thing happens with
ALL CD's you try to play?

   If it's just this one CD then I'd suspect damage or something in
the way it's written. Some CDs have copy protection build in -
intentionally pitted surfaces - and others have multimedia stuff that
I think is a different sort of file system or something.

   If it's all CDs then it might be improved with a CD drive firmware
update. I will warn you that with more recent versions of cdrecord and
cdd2wav a couple of my older, long time reliable CD drives have
problems writing CD at any speed. Joerg Schilling has pretty strong
views (understatement?) on drive manufacturers and may require you to
do a firmware update before you get much interest, but recently he did
work through problems on the gentoo-user list with someone and made
changes to his programs to accommodate so don't give up.

  So, what drive is this and does the problem happen with ALL audio CDs?

   Also, if you boot and never run KDE but maybe do these commands
from a login console (what I do on my MacMini which is a MythTV
backend server only) then do you see the same problems? If so it has
nothing to do with KDE.

Cheers,
Mark

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Can anyone help please - CD error

[BRM]

----- Original Message ----

>    Also, if you boot and never run KDE but maybe do these commands
> from a login console (what I do on my MacMini which is a MythTV
> backend server only) then do you see the same problems? If so it has
> nothing to do with KDE.

Just a thought - but you may try enabling/disabling HAL (hald) too.

Ben

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Can anyone help please - CD error

[Paul Stear]

Thanks Mark,
Sorry for the delay in responding.
>    Please correct me if I'm wrong but this sort of thing happens with
> ALL CD's you try to play?
Yes all CDs.
> 
<snip>
> 
>    If it's all CDs then it might be improved with a CD drive firmware
> > update.
I have 2 brand new CD/DVDRW which are SAMSUNG BG68-01665A REV.01
The kernal reports:???  this is strange the speeds are being reported 
differently:-
scsi 6:0:0:0: CD-ROM            TSSTcorp CDDVDW SH-S222A  SB01 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5                                                               
sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 32x/40x writer dvd-ram cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray                                                                      
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20                                                                                                       
sr 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0                                                                                                       
sr 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg4 type 5                                                                                               

scsi 6:0:1:0: CD-ROM            TSSTcorp CDDVDW SH-S222A  SB01 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5                                                               
sr1: scsi3-mmc drive: 48x/48x writer dvd-ram cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray                                                                      
sr 6:0:1:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr1                                                                                                       
sr 6:0:1:0: Attached scsi generic sg5 type 5
<snip>

>    Also, if you boot and never run KDE but maybe do these commands
> from a login console (what I do on my MacMini which is a MythTV
> backend server only) then do you see the same problems? If so it has
> nothing to do with KDE.
I have tried to use splay on the command line with no kde running, I'm not sure 
if this is a good program to run or if I am trying to use it correctly.
If I try and mount /dev/sr0 I get a message " Can't read superblock" I used 
"mount -t iso9660 /dev/sr0 /mnt/cdrom

I must admit to being a bit lost now and not sure what to try next
Again thanks for your help
Paul

-- 
This message has been sent using kmail on gentoo.

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Can anyone help please - CD error

[Paul Stear]

Hi again,
sorry for replying to my own post.  I have just completed some updates to world 
which included all os alsa.  Guess what??? My CDs now play using ksCD.
I'll continue checking other apps but at the moment all looks well.
 Again thanks for your help
 Paul
 

-- 
This message has been sent using kmail on gentoo.

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Can anyone help please - CD error

[sean]

sean wrote:
> 
> I recently installed KDE to try it out and KsCD does not work for me either.
> It always reports no CD.
> The optical drive works for every thing else I need it to do.
> I have not done any troubleshooting because I do not use the KsCD program.
> 
> 		Sean
> 
> 


One thing I forgot to mention, other programs can play audio CDs, just
not KsCD.

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Can anyone help please - CD error

[Mark Knecht]

On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 11:36 AM, sean <tech.junk@myfairpoint.net> wrote:
> sean wrote:
>>
>> I recently installed KDE to try it out and KsCD does not work for me either.
>> It always reports no CD.
>> The optical drive works for every thing else I need it to do.
>> I have not done any troubleshooting because I do not use the KsCD program.
>>
>>               Sean
>>
>>
>
>
> One thing I forgot to mention, other programs can play audio CDs, just
> not KsCD.
>
>

Oh yeah, that is quite important! Not a good thing to have left out...