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From: Colleen Beamer <colleen.beamer@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Issue 3 - CD Playing
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 03:07:21
Message-Id: 4E9F9039.40106@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Issue 3 - CD Playing by Mick
1 On 10/19/11 03:51, Mick wrote:
2 > On Wednesday 19 Oct 2011 04:54:02 Colleen Beamer wrote:
3 >> On 10/18/11 21:07, Mark Knecht wrote:
4 >>> On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 5:06 PM, Colleen Beamer
5 >>> <colleen.beamer@×××××.com> wrote:
6 >>> <SNIP>
7 >>>
8 >>>>>> cdda is one of my USE flags. I have tried upgrading phonon-gstreamer
9 >>>>>> 'cause I read somewhere that the problem might be with phonon.
10 >>>>>>
11 >>>>>> Any ideas?
12 >>>>>
13 >>>>> Have you Googled extensively on that error message? It seems that
14 >>>>> there are a lot of people that have had it and most of the forum
15 >>>>> threads I looked at seemed to have either some suggestions or possibly
16 >>>>> answers.
17 >>>>
18 >>>> Yes, I have googled for much of today. There are a lot of responses,
19 >>>> but I tried to stick to one where it was related to gentoo. Like I
20 >>>> said, there is a symlink that links cdrom to sr0. One of the things I
21 >>>> found when I googled said that they made a symlink to sr0 from cdrom.
22 >>>> That didn't make sense to me so. I didn't try it.
23 >>>>
24 >>>> Another post suggested that there was a problem with phonon. Hence, I
25 >>>> emerge an upgrade (albeit unstable) to phonon-gstreamer. In honesty,
26 >>>> one thing I didn't try was writing a udev rule that was suggested.
27 >>>> Call me stubborn, but I've never had to write a rule to get an audio
28 >>>> CD to play before so, I will only do that as a last resort.
29 >>>>
30 >>>> I've tried to stay away from posts that were back in 2003 and 2004
31 >>>> 'cause they may not be relevant now.
32 >>>>
33 >>>> The line in my fstab is:
34 >>>>
35 >>>> /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,user 0 0
36 >
37 > To listen to audio CDs you should *not* mount the CD. Therefore the above
38 > entry is not required.
39 Well, what can I say. I followed the Gentoo Handbook. :-)
40 >
41 > Since you are trying to use KDE apps to play CDs you ought to check
42 that you
43 > have installed:
44 >
45 > kde-base/kdemultimedia-meta
46 > kde-base/kdemultimedia-kioslaves
47
48 Yes, have both installed. :-)
49
50 --
51
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Replies

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Re: [gentoo-user] Issue 3 - CD Playing Jonas de Buhr <jonas.de.buhr@×××.net>
Re: [gentoo-user] Issue 3 - CD Playing Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>