Re: [gentoo-user] Can't play audio cds!

[Michael Sullivan <msulli1355@gmail.com>]

On Tue, 2008-10-07 at 09:45 +0300, Liviu Andronic wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 8:16 PM, Michael Sullivan
> <michael@espersunited.com> wrote:
> > checked the log file, but I couldn't find anything.  I couldn't mount my
> > CD (in the past this wasn't necessary for audio CDs, but I thought I'd
> >
> As far as I know, the Linux kernel cannot mount Audio CDs. The one
> programme that on my system works with Audio CDs is Gnome-mplayer. You
> might also try VLC. Another option is to rip them with Grip.
> 
> Regards,
> Liviu
> 

I wrote in about this problem awhile ago and never got an answer.  This
morning I was googling the problem and came across the thread I created
on an archive site and looked at it just to see if there was anything
I'd missed.  There was a reply to it that I hadn't seen before, so I
read it.  I don't know why I never received the reply, but it suggested
using 

mplayer cdda://

and posting the error messages.  I tried it and it works; it plays my
audio cd:

michael@camille ~ $ mplayer cdda://
MPlayer dev-SVN-r28058-4.1.2 (C) 2000-2008 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.66GHz (Family: 15, Model: 4, Stepping: 1)
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0: No such file or directory
Can't init input joystick
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote
control.

Playing cdda://.
Found audio CD with 17 tracks.

Track 1
rawaudio file format detected.
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [pcm] Uncompressed PCM audio decoder
AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 1411.2 kbit/100.00% (ratio:
176400->176400)
Selected audio codec: [pcm] afm: pcm (Uncompressed PCM)
==========================================================================
AO: [oss] 44100Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Video: no video
Starting playback...
A:   9.0 (09.0) of 3701.7 ( 1:01:41.7)  8.6% 

MPlayer interrupted by signal 2 in module: play_audio
A:   9.0 (09.0) of 3701.7 ( 1:01:41.7)  8.6% 
Exiting... (Quit)


However, kscd does not.  The interface looks like it's playing, but
there's no audio output:

michael@camille ~ $ kscd
QWidget::setProperty( "text", value ) failed: property invalid,
read-only or does not exist
kdecore (KConfigSkeleton): Creating KConfigSkeleton (0x80ed298)
kdecore (KConfigSkeleton): KConfigSkeleton::readConfig()
kdecore (KConfigSkeleton): Creating KConfigSkeleton (0x8109610)
kdecore (KConfigSkeleton): KConfigSkeleton::readConfig()
kscd: Device change: WM_CDIN, /dev/cdrom, , , status: Stopped
kscd: Volume change: 100, status: Success
michael@camille ~ $ kscd: New discId=3859707153
kscd: lookupCDDB() called
kdecore (KConfigSkeleton): KConfigSkeleton::readConfig()
libkcddb: Looking up e60e7511 in CDDB cache
kdecore (KConfigSkeleton): Creating KConfigSkeleton (0xbfb4a1f4)
kdecore (KConfigSkeleton): KConfigSkeleton::readConfig()
libkcddb: Loaded CDInfo for e60e7511
libkcddb: Found 1 hit(s)
kdecore (KConfigSkeleton): KConfigSkeleton::writeConfig()
kdecore (KConfigSkeleton): KConfigSkeleton::readConfig()


As far as I can tell, the logs have nothing to say about this problem.
Unless I'm looking in the wrong log.  I checked /var/log/messages and
there is no mention of kscd anywhere. dmesg has the same two lines
repeated over and over again:

i2c-adapter i2c-1: master_xfer[1] R, addr=0x40, len=3
i2c-adapter i2c-1: master_xfer[0] W, addr=0x40, len=2

with one variation at the very top:  adapter i2c-1: master_xfer[1] R,
addr=0x40, len=2

If I try to play my CD in VLC, I get this error:  

Your input can't be opened:

VLC is unable to open the MRL 'cdda:///dev/hda'. Check the log for
details.


but I can't find VLC's log file.  Can anyone clue me in to where it is?

I checked /dev/hda (which IS my cd-rom drive):

camille ~ # ls -l /dev/hda
brwxrwxrwx 1 root cdrom 3, 0 Dec 28 15:15 /dev/hda


and I AM in the cdrom group:

camille ~ # grep cdrom /etc/group
cdrom:x:19:michael,haldaemon




I'm using gnome:

camille log # emerge -pv gnome

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild   R   ] gnome-base/gnome-2.22.3  USE="cdr cups dvdr esd ldap
-accessibility -mono" 0 kB

Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB


Can anyone help me fix this with this new information?
-Michael Sullivan-