This is complicated but I'll make it quick. I was able to play audio CD's via my dvd-rom drive in kscd. I tried to edit some stuff so that k3b would burn CD's according to the guide here: http://www.jennings.homelinux.net/k3b.html

So I tweaked my lilo.conf and fstab and now my audio CD's don't work in my dvd-rom drive. Everything works fine in Windows XP though so it's not a hardware issue.

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here is my lilo.conf:

boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
default="linux"
keytable=/boot/us.klt
prompt
nowarn
timeout=100
message=/boot/message
menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label="linux"
root=/dev/hdb1
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append="devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi acpi=off quiet"
vga=788
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label="linux-nonfb"
root=/dev/hdb1
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append="devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi acpi=off"
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label="failsafe"
root=/dev/hdb1
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append="devfs=nomount hdc=ide-scsi acpi=off failsafe"
read-only
other=/dev/hda1
label="windows"
table=/dev/hda
other=/dev/fd0
label="floppy"
unsafe
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Here is my fstab

/dev/hdb1 / ext3 defaults 1 1
/dev/hdb7 /back2 ext3 defaults 1 2
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
/dev/hdb6 /home ext3 defaults 1 2
none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
none /mnt/cdrom2 supermount dev=/dev/cdrom2,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
/dev/hda1 /mnt/windows ntfs iocharset=iso8859-1,ro,umask=0 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hdb5 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/sda1 /mnt/hd auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,kudzu,codepage=850,noauto,umask=0,exec 0 0
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Here is my KSCD CD-ROM device path:

/dev/cdrom


So can anyone help??

What do you mean by "my audio CD's don't work?" Does the drive not read them, or they don't play, or what?

If I pop in an audio CD in my DVD-ROM drive and run KSCD, it's stuck on EJECT. When I try to eject the CD, the light goes on but it seems stuck and nothing happens. When I click the PLAY button, nothing happens.

It's not a hardware issue everything works perfectly in Windows XP. It worked fine before I messed with the whole K3B, lilo.conf, and fstab. I shouldn't have touched it!

You'll need the right device name in both , the relevant /etc/fstab entry and the device path in KsCD - make them tally - re-check dmesg | less for the device name.

If you want the DVD drive to play your audio CDs, make the KSCD path /dev/scd0 (I'm assuming your DVD drive is mounted at /mnt/cdrom) If it isn't, make the path /dev/cdrom2. If you aren't sure, try each until it works.

I typed in the console 'dmesg|less' and I got back a long page of just stuff I don't know what's going on.

can you copy and paste and show me your lilo.conf and fstab? Maybe that would help.

I tried your suggestion but it does not work.

Just try giving the audio device in kscd as /dev/sr0 and try.

Mine's /dev/sr0 aswell - make sure you put the corresponding device name in the relevant /etc/fstab entry aswell - if /dev/sr0 isn't the device name just post the full contents of your dmesg output - we should be able to spot what name its using.

You asked for my dmesg output, and here it is:

[ken@localhost ken]$ dmesg
Linux version 2.4.21-0.13mdk (flepied@bi.mandrakesoft.com) (gcc version 3.2.2 (Mandrake Linux 9.1 3.2.2-3mdk)) #1 Fri Mar 14 15:08:06 EST 2003
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000001ffec000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000001ffec000 - 000000001ffef000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 000000001ffef000 - 000000001ffff000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 000000001ffff000 - 0000000020000000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
511MB LOWMEM available.
ACPI: have wakeup address 0xc0001000
On node 0 totalpages: 131052
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 126956 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=linux ro root=341 devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi acpi=off quiet
ide_setup: hdc=ide-scsi
Found and enabled local APIC!
Initializing CPU#0
Detected 2558.541 MHz processor.
Console: colour dummy device 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 5098.70 BogoMIPS
Memory: 515080k/524208k available (1410k kernel code, 8740k reserved, 1118k data, 136k init, 0k highmem)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Inode cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Buffer-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 8K
CPU: L2 cache: 512K
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU: After generic, caps: 3febfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Common caps: 3febfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.53GHz stepping 04
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
enabled ExtINT on CPU#0
ESR value before enabling vector: 00000000
ESR value after enabling vector: 00000000
Using local APIC timer interrupts.
calibrating APIC timer ...
..... CPU clock speed is 2558.6026 MHz.
..... host bus clock speed is 134.6632 MHz.
cpu: 0, clocks: 1346632, slice: 673316
CPU0<T0:1346624,T1:673296,D:12,S:673316,C:1346632>
mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20030122
ACPI: Disabled via command line (acpi=off)
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf1e90, last bus=2
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: ACPI tables contain no PCI IRQ routing entries
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
PCI: Ignoring BAR0-3 of IDE controller 00:1f.1
Transparent bridge - Intel Corp. 82801BA/CA/DB PCI Bridge
PCI: Using IRQ router PIIX [8086/24c0] at 00:1f.0
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16)
Starting kswapd
VFS: Disk quotas vdquot_6.5.1
devfs: v1.12c (20020818) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
devfs: boot_options: 0x1
vesafb: framebuffer at 0xe8000000, mapped to 0xe0800000, size 131072k
vesafb: mode is 800x600x16, linelength=1600, pages=135
vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:573e
vesafb: scrolling: redraw
vesafb: directcolor: size=0:5:6:5, shift=0:11:5:0
Looking for splash picture.... found (800x600, 25593 bytes).
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 80x16
fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with HUB-6 MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 32000K size 1024 blocksize
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta-2.4
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
ICH4: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:1f.1
PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:1f.1
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 00:1d.2
ICH4: chipset revision 1
ICH4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hdaMA, hdbMA
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdcMA, hddMA
hda: WDC WD800JB-00CRA1, ATA DISK drive
hdb: WDC WD1200JB-00CRA1, ATA DISK drive
blk: queue c03cb420, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
blk: queue c03cb55c, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
hdc: CD-RW 40X12, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdd: DVD-ROM DDU220E, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: host protected area => 1
hda: 156301488 sectors (80026 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=9729/255/63, UDMA(100)
hdb: host protected area => 1
hdb: 234441648 sectors (120034 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=14593/255/63, UDMA(100)
Partition check:
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0: p1 p2 < p5 p6 p7 >
md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
IP: routing cache hash table of 4096 buckets, 32Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 32768 bind 65536)
Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
Freeing initrd memory: 107k freed
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Mounted devfs on /dev
Journalled Block Device driver loaded
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Mounted devfs on /dev
Freeing unused kernel memory: 136k freed
Real Time Clock Driver v1.10e
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 15:32:56 Mar 14 2003
usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:1d.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 01:00.0
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1d.0 to 64
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xb800, IRQ 11
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 00:1d.1
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1d.1 to 64
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xb400, IRQ 5
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:1d.2
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 00:1f.1
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1d.2 to 64
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xb000, IRQ 10
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
PCI: Enabling device 00:1d.7 (0004 -> 0006)
PCI: Assigned IRQ 9 for device 00:1d.7
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1d.7 to 64
ehci-hcd 00:1d.7: Intel Corp. 82801DB USB EHCI Controller
ehci-hcd 00:1d.7: irq 9, pci mem e896c000
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4
ehci-hcd 00:1d.7: enabled 64bit PCI DMA
ehci-hcd 00:1d.7: USB 2.0 enabled, EHCI 1.00, driver 2002-Dec-20
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 6 ports detected
usbdevfs: remount parameter error
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,65), internal journal
Adding Swap: 506008k swap-space (priority -1)
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
Vendor: ATAPI Model: CD-RW 40X12 Rev: V.MW
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
i2c-core.o: i2c core module version 2.7.0 (20021208)
i2c-algo-bit.o: i2c bit algorithm module version 2.7.0 (20021208)
Linux video capture interface: v1.00
bttv: driver version 0.7.100 loaded
bttv: using 4 buffers with 2080k (8320k total) for capture
bttv: Host bridge is Intel Corp. 82845 845 (Brookdale) Chipset Host Bridge
bttv: Bt8xx card found (0).
PCI: Enabling device 02:0a.0 (0004 -> 0006)
PCI: Assigned IRQ 9 for device 02:0a.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 02:0a.1
PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 02:0d.2
bttv0: Bt878 (rev 17) at 02:0a.0, irq: 9, latency: 32, mmio: 0xd7800000
bttv0: detected: Hauppauge WinTV [card=10], PCI subsystem ID is 0070:13eb
bttv0: using: BT878(Hauppauge (bt878)) [card=10,autodetected]
bttv0: Hauppauge/Voodoo msp34xx: reset line init [5]
bttv0: Hauppauge eeprom: model=44371, tuner=Philips FM1236 (2), radio=yes
bttv0: using tuner=2
bttv0: i2c: checking for MSP34xx @ 0x80... found
msp34xx: init: chip=MSP3435G-B6, has NICAM support
msp3410: daemon started
bttv0: i2c attach [client=MSP3435G-B6,ok]
bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA9875 @ 0xb0... not found
bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA7432 @ 0x8a... not found
tvaudio: TV audio decoder + audio/video mux driver
tvaudio: known chips: tda9840,tda9873h,tda9874h/a,tda9850,tda9855,tea6300,tea6420,tda8425,pic16c54 (PV951)
tuner: probing bt848 #0 i2c adapter [id=0x10005]
tuner: chip found @ 0xc2
tuner: type set to 2 (Philips NTSC (FI1236,FM1236 and compatibles))
bttv0: i2c attach [client=Philips NTSC (FI1236,FM1236 and ,ok]
bttv0: PLL: 28636363 => 35468950 ... ok
bttv0: registered device video0
bttv0: registered device vbi0
bttv0: registered device radio0
hdd: ATAPI DVD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache, DMA
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,71), internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,70), internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
NTFS driver 2.1.1a [Flags: R/O MODULE].
NTFS volume version 3.1.
ohci1394: $Rev: 693 $ Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
PCI: Enabling device 02:0d.2 (0014 -> 0016)
PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 02:0d.2
PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 02:0a.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 02:0a.1
ohci1394_0: OHCI-1394 1.1 (PCI): IRQ=[9] MMIO=[d4800000-d48007ff] Max Packet=[2048]
ieee1394: SelfID completion called outside of bus reset!
ieee1394: Host added: Node[00:1023] GUID[00023c0020000ba5] [Linux OHCI-1394]
PCI: Enabling device 02:0c.0 (0004 -> 0005)
PCI: Assigned IRQ 5 for device 02:0c.0
3c59x: Donald Becker and others. www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html
See Documentation/networking/vortex.txt
02:0c.0: 3Com PCI 3c905 Boomerang 100baseTx at 0xa400. Vers LK1.1.18-ac
00:60:97:c3:06:d1, IRQ 5
product code 4848 rev 00.0 date 04-07-97
Internal config register is 16302d8, transceivers 0xe040.
8K word-wide RAM 3:5 Rx:Tx split, autoselect/MII interface.
MII transceiver found at address 24, status 786f.
Enabling bus-master transmits and whole-frame receives.
02:0c.0: scatter/gather enabled. h/w checksums disabled
inserting floppy driver for 2.4.21-0.13mdk
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 40x/48x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 okir@monad.swb.de).
Creative EMU10K1 PCI Audio Driver, version 0.19a, 15:30:33 Mar 14 2003
PCI: Enabling device 02:0d.0 (0004 -> 0005)
PCI: Assigned IRQ 5 for device 02:0d.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 5 with 02:03.0
emu10k1: Audigy rev 3 model 0x0051 found, IO at 0xa000-0xa01f, IRQ 5
ac97_codec: AC97 codec, id: TRA35 (TriTech TR A5)
Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 439M
agpgart: Detected Intel i845 chipset
agpgart: AGP aperture is 128M @ 0xf0000000
[fglrx] Maximum main memory to use for locked dma buffers: 431 MBytes.
[fglrx] module loaded - fglrx 3.2.8 [Sep 21 2003] on minor 0
Fire GL built-in AGP-support
Based on agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 439M
agpgart: Detected Intel i845 E/MP/MZ chipset
agpgart: AGP aperture is 128M @ 0xf0000000
Power management callback for AGP chipset installed
[fglrx] AGP detected, AgpState = 0x1f000217 (hardware caps of chipset)
AGP: Found 2 AGPv2 devices
AGP: Doing enable for AGPv2
[fglrx] AGP enabled, AgpCommand = 0x1f000314 (selected caps)
[fglrx] free AGP = 121909248
[fglrx] max AGP = 121909248
[fglrx] free LFB = 122683392
[fglrx] max LFB = 122683392
[fglrx] free Inv = 0
[fglrx] max Inv = 0
[fglrx] total Inv = 0
[fglrx] total TIM = 0
[fglrx] total FB = 0
[fglrx] total AGP = 32768
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE]
parport0: irq 7 detected
parport0: Printer, HEWLETT-PACKARD DESKJET 830C
lp0: using parport0 (polling).
Splash status on console 0 changed to off
sr0: CDROM not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive.
sr0: CDROM not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive.
sr0: CDROM not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive.
sr0: CDROM not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive.
sr0: CDROM not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive.
sr0: CDROM not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive.
sr0: CDROM not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive.
sr0: CDROM not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive.
sr0: CDROM not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive.
sr0: CDROM not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive.
sr0: CDROM not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive.
hdd: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
hdd: irq timeout: error=0xd0LastFailedSense 0x0d
hdd: DMA disabled
hdd: ATAPI reset complete
udf: registering filesystem

For starters - you might be able to play audio cd's via your cd-rewriter on hdc using /dev/sr0

so you'll need /dev/sr0 for the device name of your cd rewriter in both /etc/fstab and Kscd

My fstab entry in Slack is:

/dev/sr0 /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,user,ro 0 0

and my dmesg in Slack is

Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 48x/48x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray

That's with my rewriter on hdc

Good news: It works!
bad news: No sound as my audio cable to my sound card is plugged into my DVD drive. It has to be plugged in there because I watch movies and stuff from my DVD driven.

So again, I still need my DVD-ROM drive to be the one that plays audio CD's, no my CD-RW as I get no sound.

Actually - more specifically to your DVD Rom drive on hdd - simply add

hdd=ide-scsi

to the append line in the Mandrake entry in lilo.conf - remember to run /sbin/lilo after adding this to lilo.conf - then

you need to create a new mount point for the dvd drive ie

mkdir /mnt/dvdrom

and make sure you put this as the mount point in the dvd entry in fstab - then reboot the computer.

your dmesg will probably then show your DVD Rom drive as

/dev/sr1

(have a quick look though - or post your dmesg again and I'll check the new device name for your dvd rom drive on hdd)

then simply use /dev/sr1 for both the device name in the dvd rom entry in /etc/fstab and the device path in kscd - then simply

chmod 777 /dev/sr1

in case of any permission issues

Bump.......

Forgot to mention you'll need a new mount point for your DVD rom drive ie

mkdir /mnt/dvdrom

so - in the DVD entry in fstab you'll have

/dev/sr1 /mnt/dvdrom auto noauto,user,ro 0 0

for the DVD drive

see my previous post aswell for the other details and additions you'll need

Well, in the new xmms 1.2.8 i got with slackware 9.1, the audiocd plugin is cool.
It plays auiocds by digital audio extraction. So the sound plays even if the drive is not connected to the sound card!!!
( I think the same method is used in widoze media player)