On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 5:06 PM, Colleen Beamer <colleen.bea...@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 > > Maybe I should have said /dev/sr0? > > I may have to keep plugging, but thought I would post in case anyone > else has encountered this problem. >
Sorry. I'm not picking on you. Maybe it sounded that way. I apologize if it did. Along the lines of what Dale suggested is your user account part of the audio group? I've not had any problem with Linux audio in a while, at least not CD playing, although I don't do a lot of that in Linux so maybe I've missed something. I will say from personal experience that I've had the fewest problems with xine but it has a fairly involved user interface that isn't the easiest thing to get through if you've not used it before. I use it all the time for DVDs, and sometimes for CDs although all of that is digitized these days and I hardly ever touch physical CDs. Again, my apologies if I ticked you off. I do that sometimes. :-) ;-) - Mark
