BTW, I've confirmed that it's not a hardware issue. I was able to
load alsaplayer and get sound to come out of the speakers. I also ran
totem from the commandline, and got an error message saying it can't
find /usr/lib/gnome-vfs2/modules/libcdda.so. True enough, the file is
not there. I googled, and discovered many folks who think it should be
part of the std gnome-vfs2 rpm. However, when I did a --filesbypkg, I
discovered that *my* rpm (ver 2.10.0 rel 5) does not contain that lib.
What do I do?
BTW, I can't figure out how to get alsaplayer to play my audio CD.
Steve
Steven C. Liu wrote:
Hi folks,
I have an FC4 server that had only a DVD-RW (identified by CD Player as
SONY DVD RW DW-D26A) drive in it for a long time. I know that I've
used it just fine to read and burn data CD's and DVD's. Since it was a
"server", I believe I've never bothered to see if I can play audio CD's
from it.
Recently, I added a 2nd optical drive (according to CD Player - CD-RW
CRX216E) that once was fully functional in another PC. Please assume
that I added the second drive correctly from a h/w perspective - i.e.,
jumpers and cables are NOW all correct. (I had initially reversed the
sequence of the master and slave units on the ribbon cable.)
Now, I am trying to get the darn thing to play regular audio CD's --
I'm using a regular store-bought copy of an audio CD that plays just
fine on EVERY other machine at home, including an FC4 "desktop" -- and
I get problems with CD Player, Totem and Music Player:
* CD Player - can read the track information, but cannot play any of
the songs. None of the buttons are greyed out, but "play", "fwd" and
even using the slide bar has no effect on getting it to play. BTW - it
doesn't even go through the motions of playing - i.e., it is NOT the
case that the slide bar moves and no sound comes out - it truly seems
not to work.
* Totem can't seem to run. It tries to start up, but then quickly dies
with the following message: "Resource busy or not available".
* I pulled up firefox to play an mp3 off the internet, and Music Player
complained with the following error message: "Internal GStreamer error:
negotiation (or pad) problem. File a bug." I think I applied the
correct RPM's. The only one I'm not sure of is this:
gstreamer-plugins-mp3-0.8.8-0.lvn.1.4.i386.rpm. Should I have used an
i686 version? Here is the output of 'uname -a': Linux
numenor.steven-c-liu.com 2.6.15-1.1833_FC4 #1 Wed Mar 1 23:41:37 EST
2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
Do I have an actual hardware problem? How can I isolate a hardware
problem from a software configuration problem? When installing FC4
from DVD, isn't there an audio test? Do I need to run MAKEDEV? (I
think not.)
I tried to back out of my hardware changes - i.e., unplugging the new
optical drive and plugging the cables into teh original drive exactly
as it was in the beginning -- and still no success.
Help please. TIA,
Steve
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