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* Re: [gentoo-user] Issue 3 - CD Playing
  @ 2011-10-19  7:51 99%     ` Mick
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From: Mick @ 2011-10-19  7:51 UTC (permalink / raw
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On Wednesday 19 Oct 2011 04:54:02 Colleen Beamer wrote:
> On 10/18/11 21:07, Mark Knecht wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 5:06 PM, Colleen Beamer
> > <colleen.beamer@gmail.com> wrote:
> > <SNIP>
> > 
> >>>> cdda is one of my USE flags. I have tried upgrading phonon-gstreamer
> >>>> 'cause I read somewhere that the problem might be with phonon.
> >>>> 
> >>>> Any ideas?
> >>> 
> >>> Have you Googled extensively on that error message? It seems that
> >>> there are a lot of people that have had it and most of the forum
> >>> threads I looked at seemed to have either some suggestions or possibly
> >>> answers.
> >> 
> >> Yes, I have googled for much of today.  There are a lot of responses,
> >> but I tried to stick to one where it was related to gentoo.  Like I
> >> said, there is a symlink that links cdrom to sr0.  One of the things I
> >> found when I googled said that they made a symlink to sr0 from cdrom.
> >> That didn't make sense to me so. I didn't try it.
> >> 
> >> Another post suggested that there was a problem with phonon.  Hence, I
> >> emerge an upgrade (albeit unstable) to phonon-gstreamer.  In honesty,
> >> one thing I didn't try was writing a udev rule that was suggested.
> >> Call me stubborn, but I've never had to write a rule to get an audio
> >> CD to play before so, I will only do that as a last resort.
> >> 
> >> I've tried to stay away from posts that were back in 2003 and 2004
> >> 'cause they may not be relevant now.
> >> 
> >> The line in my fstab is:
> >> 
> >> /dev/cdrom    /mnt/cdrom    auto    noauto,user    0 0

To listen to audio CDs you should *not* mount the CD.  Therefore the above 
entry is not required.

Since you are trying to use KDE apps to play CDs you ought to check that you 
have installed:

  kde-base/kdemultimedia-meta
  kde-base/kdemultimedia-kioslaves

HTH.
-- 
Regards,
Mick

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