Re: [gentoo-user] What's with this hald thing and why can't I rip CDs any more?

[Naiani Rosa de Barros]

On Jan 9, 2008 5:03 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote:
> On Jan 9, 2008 10:49 AM, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote:
> > On Wed, 9 Jan 2008 10:41:16 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
> >
> > >   Things here are still basically a disaster. I rebooted. No change.
> > > sound-juicer still only rips the 1st six tracks and then skips the
> > > last seven. Pretty much the same on every CD I've tried so far. No
> > > messages in dmesg.
> >
> > Have you tried a different ripper? This could be a problem with
> > sound-juicer, not hal/dbus.
> >
>
> I emerged grip but it's not seeing the CD at all. I tried Aqualung but
> it didn't work either.
>
> Seeing Dale's note I tried K3b, which I should have thought of before.
> It worked for the CD that was already in the drive so that was a step
> forward. When I inserted a new CD it got blocked by Gnome starting
> Totem automatically. When I closed Totem my hand then K3b was able to
> rip the second CD. I haven't listened to anything yet but at least the
> files look about right.
>
> So, with all of that I am guessing that Totem was somehow blocking
> sound-juicer. Totem starting automatically when I insert a CD has
> never happened before. Is that because I turned on hald? If so do I
> really need hald or can I turn it off? Or maybe I need ivman to help
> hald do it's work better?

Probably. HAL + ivman does that. Configure automounting/recognizing devices.

> Of course if there is some Gentoo page on how to run all this stuff
> correctly that it where I should really start.

http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_ivman

> thanks,
>
> Mark
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>

No problem. =)

Naiani
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