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.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
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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