[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Strange problem with audio CDs

[Jörg Schaible]

Jake Moe wrote:

> On 01/11/11 04:38, Jörg Schaible wrote:
>> Hi Jake,
>>
>> Jake Moe wrote:
>>
>>> I can't seem to get audio CDs to work with my drive.  Data CDs work
>>> fine, I can mount the filesystem and read them.  Data and Video DVDs
>>> seem to work fine as well.  But when I try to listen to an audio CD, I
>>> get the attached errors in log.bz2.  I've tried using things from KsCD
>>> to cdplay; everything gives the same errors.  Googling seems to indicate
>>> that there might be a problem with udev somehow, but most of those that
>>> I find have the "fix" as "update to the latest udev using apt/rpm/other
>>> binary distro package tool", which obviously won't work for Gentoo.
>>> Other solutions seem to be "update to libATA", but I'm already using
>>> that.
>>>
>>> I've gone through and tried to check anything obvious in my kernel
>>> config, but I can't see anything that'd affect it like this.  Also, if I
>>> reboot into Windows (this laptop is a work computer as well), it plays
>>> and rips the same CDs just fine.
>>>
>>> Hardware is an HP EliteBook nc6930p laptop.  CD/DVD drive is /dev/sr0.
>>> Controller is:
>>>
>>> 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation ICH9M/M-E SATA AHCI
>>> Controller (rev 03) (prog-if 01 [AHCI 1.0])
>>>         Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 30dc
>>>         Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 46
>>>         I/O ports at 8118 [size=8]
>>>         I/O ports at 813c [size=4]
>>>         I/O ports at 8110 [size=8]
>>>         I/O ports at 8138 [size=4]
>>>         I/O ports at 8000 [size=32]
>>>         Memory at d8426000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K]
>>>         Capabilities: [80] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/16 Maskable- 64bit-
>>>         Capabilities: [70] Power Management version 3
>>>         Capabilities: [a8] SATA HBA <?>
>>>         Capabilities: [b0] PCI Advanced Features
>>>         Kernel driver in use: ahci
>>>
>>> Oddly, if I open Konqueror and type in "audiocd:/", it lists the tracks,
>>> and has the FLAC, MP3, Ogg, etc folders.  But it won't play or copy the
>>> files; it gives the error in error.gif.
>>>
>>> Any other info you need, please let me know.  This is driving me nuts.
>> Same for me: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=6372251#6372251
>>
>> I still have my old box around just because of this problem :-/
>>
>> 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) SATA
>> AHCI Controller (prog-if 01 [AHCI 1.0])
>>         Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device 0198
>>         Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 64
>>         I/O ports at c880 [size=8]
>>         I/O ports at c800 [size=4]
>>         I/O ports at c480 [size=8]
>>         I/O ports at c400 [size=4]
>>         I/O ports at c080 [size=32]
>>         Memory at fbcfc000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K]
>>         Capabilities: [80] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/16 Maskable- 64bit-
>>         Capabilities: [70] Power Management version 3
>>         Capabilities: [a8] SATA HBA <?>
>>         Capabilities: [b0] PCI Advanced Features
>>         Kernel driver in use: ahci
>>
>> When I rip a CD it typically starts to read it slow permanently down and
>> after ~ the 6th song the process is not profgressing anymore ...
>>
>> You're also running 64-bit ?
>>
>> - Jörg
> Well, mine is a bit different.

Not convinced ;-)

> I typically run FVWM from a SLIM logon,
> so there's no KDE or Gnome auto-anything running.  I only used Konqueror
> as an example of another way of accessing the CDs that might have
> worked, but didn't.   I can even stop XDM, log in from a console prompt
> with no X running, and try to play a CD with cdplay or dcd, and I'll get
> the same results.  And with me, it doesn't start to work and then slow
> down; it never works.  It can only read track listings, but not any of
> the music.

As I said in the forum, I have these log entries running from a pure console 
(no X started at all) even with a stopped hal. It's enough to put an audio 
CD into the drive. Happens also with vanilla kernel. Since 2.6.35 I have the 
message only once though, in the previous two kernels (34+35) they are 
repeated permanently.

> And no, I'm on 32-bit "stable" Gentoo, with only "unstable" packages
> being ones that don't have stable ebuilds.

Same for me, just using 64-bit.

> Thanks for trying, though.  :-)  Anyone else have any ideas?

Me, no - unfortunately.

- Jörg