Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome does not mount audio CD

[Daniel da Veiga]

On 3/5/06, Tom Naujokas <tomnaujokas@×××××.com> wrote:
> Last time I tried putting a CD in the CD drive everything seemed
> to work OK. The "Audio Disc" icon appeared on my Gnome desktop,
> I could click it and see a bunch of wav files corresponding
> to the tracks on the CD.

I really really doubt they were wave files, but probably Gnome had
some "trick" to scan the tracks, Audio CDs are not really mounted,
they are directly accessed by the app that plays them...

>
> No more. The icon still appears but when I click it I get a
> "Couldn't display "cdda:///dev/hda" error dialog. Trying to
> mount the drive manually results in:

Well, hmmm, what can I say, /dev/hda? Hmmm, sounds weird, do you use
udev? If so, you probably have a /dev/cdrom, try this instead.

>
>   # mount /dev/hda /media/cdrecorder/
>   mount: you must specify the filesystem type
>   # mount -t cdfs -r /dev/hda /media/cdrecorder/
>   mount: unknown filesystem type 'cdfs'

You just can't mount it as far as I know... You play them, not mount them.

>
> Goolge finds the following link:
>
>   http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20869
>
> This seems to say that cdfs is not even in portage yet. An
> "emerge --searchdesc cdfs" confirms this. So what's going
> on? This worked at one time and I thought that cdfs was the
> file system that made it work.
>
> As for timeframe, I haven't tried this in a while. Since at
> least before the Gnome 2.12 upgrade.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help,
> Tom Naujokas
>
>
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