On Tuesday 27 November 2007, Joost Roeleveld wrote:
> > On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 07:53:40 +0100, Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
> >> There is no need to do so. However, a fuse based filesystem for mounting
> >> audio CDs exists, see http://castet.matthieu.free.fr/cddfs/.
> >
> > Oh, thank you all for your input -- I've been a bit obsessed with rails
> > and let this go to the back burner a bit.
> >
> > However, I did notice that when I click on "CDROM" from nautilus there's
> > a message about HAL; again, though, it cannot be a hardware issue as
> > these particular discs and drives work in another distro on the same
> > machine.
>
> If the discs and drives work on the same machine with a different distro,
> then I agree, the hardware should work.
>
> Also, as the /dev/ entries exist and it doesn't complain about that, the
> drives are probably detected correctly.
>
> > I believe it to be a driver issue (HAL is a hardware driver?  Hardware
> > Abstraction Layer?  But isn't it more BIOS than OS?).  I'll double check
> > things with some data discs on the other distro in the next few days and
> > do some more googling (and wikipedia-ing).
>
> Can you also check with datadiscs on the Gentoo installation?
> I agree with the others that audio-discs are generally not mountable.
> The FUSE-driver for Audio-discs might be installed on your other distro
> (Redhat?), but is not installed by default with Gentoo.
>
> > If this sheds any light:
> >
> >
> > arrakis ~ #
> > arrakis ~ # dmesg | grep 'cd'
> > ehci_hcd 0000:00:03.3: EHCI Host Controller
>
> <Snipped dmesg-output>
>
> When I do the above command, it only shows me the cd/dvd writer, not the
> cdrom drive.
> Can you post the full output of "dmesg" after you booted the system?
>
> > I think it's more on shutdown that I notice lotsa weird messages about
> > the cdrom drive(s) since futzing with /etc/fstab.
>
> Can you also give us the contents of your "/etc/fstab" file?

Haven't followed up all of this thread, but it may well be a clash between 
hald/dbus trying to control your media devices and your fstab.  Entries in 
the latter are only applicable if you want to be mounting such devices 
manually.
-- 
Regards,
Mick