On 10/18/11 19:51, Dale wrote: > Colleen Beamer wrote: >> Hi everyone, >> >> My CD drive will read data CD's, but will not play audio CD's. I've >> tried with kscd and Kaffeine. Haven't installed amarok yet. I've >> checked and rechecked my settings in the kernel. In /dev cdrom is a >> symlink to sr0. Nothing I've read in anything that came up in my google >> search helped. >> >> Oops! Forgot to add this to my original message: >> >> When I try to play an audio CD in kaffeine, I get an alert box that >> says: >> Cannot find input plgin for MRL "cdda://" >> >> cdda is one of my USE flags. I have tried upgrading phonon-gstreamer >> 'cause I read somewhere that the problem might be with phonon. >> ------------------ >> >> >> >> > > > Is your user added to the cdrom or similar groups? Yes! :-) In my more "newbie" days, this was one thing that bit ME in the butt a few times so, I've learned to cover that base before I cry wolf! :-) > > > One thing you could try, run the program as root in a terminal, > Konsole here for me. Running kscd in a console as root, starts kscd. The first time I tried it, I got a message about "asound". I tried running it under by user id and got no error message. I ran it again as root thinking I would post the message, but didn't get any message the second time.
Likewise, for kaffeine, but neither will play an audio CD when started this way either. > That will eliminate a permissions issue real quick and you can look > for errors too. If it works, then it is just a permissions problem. > If it doesn't work, then it is something with the program itself or > hardware related. Let's hope for the permissions one. It's easier to > fix and you don't have to take the sides off the puter either. If it > is the program, well, who knows when that could get fixed. I doubt that it is a hardware issue. The drive reads data CD's and sound works on the computer - in Juk (which I don't normally use 'cause I prefer amarok) and also in kaffeine, I can play an audio file that I have on my hard drive. > > Ma'am. < tips hat > Sir. <curtsies> :-) > > Dale > > :-) :-) > > -- Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org
