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

[J. Roeleveld]

On Monday 10 January 2011 10:48:56 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.
>
> Jake Moe

Are you sure it is a proper audio-cd?
The error message talks about a mp3-file.

Do you have this issue with all Audio-CDs? (including older ones from before 
record companies thought it was a good idea to add copy-protection schemes?)

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Joost