Re: CD players not working although sound otherwise fine
Try chmod 770 /dev/hdc
Other than that, try running it as root. One thing you may find useful
as a side note is the digital CD plugin for XMMS.
apt-get install xmms-cdread
It enables reading of CD's so the digital-analog conversion is done on
the sound card instead of in the CD drive, and transmitted through that
EM hellhole that is the inside of a PC.
Regards
Edward
On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 04:09, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> I can't use any of the apps that are supposed to work on my CD drive
> such as cdplay, dcd, xmcd.
>
> Sound is otherwise fine: I can play mp3 files from the hard disk and I
> can listen to CDs by pressing the buttons manually.
>
> Attempts to use the above apps produce the following errors:
>
> ac:~:$ cdplay
> cdplay: ioctl cdrommsf
>
>
> ac:~:$ dcd
> ac:~:$ CDROMREADTOCENTRY[1] failed: Invalid argument
> CDROMREADTOCENTRY[2] (CDROM_LEADOUT) failed: Invalid argument
> CDROMPLAYMSF failed: Input/output error
>
> Something seems to be misconfigured but what? I am added to the sound
> and cdrom groups and iso9660 is enabled in the kernel. This is an ATAPI
> drive and /dev/cdrom is linked to /dev/hdc:
>
> brw-rw---- 1 root cdrom 22, 0 Jul 5 2000 /dev/hdc
>
>
> Any suggestions for what is wrong here?
>
> AC
>
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