Re: can't listen to my audio cds
have u added yourself to the audio group?
At 04:25 PM 11/24/2000 -0500, Dave Bresson wrote:
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>hi, i'm having a small problem with my potato workstation. The problem is
>that i'm unable to listen (or do anything with) my audio cds. Before
>anyone asks, yes, the cd audio cable is connected, and the drive does work
>properly otherwise. By this, i mean that i can mount any kinda of data cd
>to /cdrom and be able to read it just fine. However, i can't mount an
>audio cd, when i try this it complains:
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>mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/cdrom,
> or too many mounted file systems
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>when i try to just brute force it by just starting gcd (kind of the dumb
>approach i guess) gcd just complains about it not "being able to open the
>cd device" this is despite gcd pointing at /dev/cdrom and all. My audio
>in general works fine on this machine, although that's a little beside the
>point and not very helpful. I thought that perhaps that this was a groups
>issue for my non-privaleged account, so i added that account to the
>"audio" group, to no avail. Although i can't get it to work as root
>either, so i guess i should've taken that as a hint that the group thing
>wouldn't work. Anyway, i've never had this problem before with any of my
>other linux boxen, so i'm a little dumbfounded. I think i've
>troubleshooted it quite a bit, but haven't found the answer, so i'm hoping
>that someone here will be able to help me. My only idea is that perhaps
>when i rolled my own kernel for this machine (using kernel-package of
>course :) that perhaps i may have messed up support for audio cds somehow.
>Well, that's my only guess anyway. I hope all this information will be of
>some use to y'all in solving my problem. Thanks,
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>dave
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