CD drives wont read music
 

so far this has been true in the updated kernals in fc2, fc3 (in general) and suse 9.2(in general) so im now fairly convinced this isnt an OS issue.

my drives are as follows:
samsung CDR/RW sw-240B
samsung DVD ROM sd-616T

anyone else have these issues, or know how i might fix them?

Can you play music files written to hard drive, eg. .ogg's or .mp3's, or is it only files on cd/dvd that you can't read ?

as for the fact my ogg CDs are in someone else's hands right now, i cannot speak for suse. but in fedora i could read all the however many ogg files i had ripped prior to upgrading

U sure you have an audio cable attached 2 ur cdrom? If not, then older versions of most audio cd players can only play analog audio from audiocd's thru that cable, but newer versions can get the data digitally from the drive cables/controller. Get the latest stable version of xmms or whatever and u should not have any problems (I had the exact same problem).

im already aware that i dont have audio cables. but it hasnt mattered yet, and the computer has always played anyways (though without sound) and has allowed me to rip (which is all i care about anyway)

problem solved.
i can rip, im a happy man

apperently it had something to do with gnome, which suse didnt install by default. so there ya have it i guess. thats how u fix it if u use suse

Excellent news !

Cheers,

mj