I installed Fedora Core 3 and now I can't play audio CD's, I just get a CD error. It worked fine in mandrake 10.1 and in red hat 9.0 so it must be something FC3 specific.

Can anyone help me find the problem?

I have a CD/rw and a DVD station in my PC, a P4 1.3 Ghz with 512Mb ram.

thanks, Roel

edit: looks like i panicked to soon, after some googling i found that I had to allow user to use the CD and add him to the audio group (or something like that)

I'll post again when I ( didn't ) managed to do that.

I don't think you can play music, mp3, on FC3 out of a box!!! You need to install xmms-mp3 before you can play it due to some legal crap! So, fire up yum and install it...

y2k

You should be able to play audio CD's just fine.
Make sure you have the updates applied, there were some bugs in udev that caused some cdrom issues.

Open the "Volume Control" from the "Sound and Video" menu, and make sure PCM is turned up and not muted, and make sure that the CD mixer is turned up and not muted.

You DO NOT need to add yourself to the audio group - PAM takes care of giving your user permission to access the CD device in Fedora.

Oh - one more gotch - make sure you have the audio cable from your cdrom drive to your sound card in place. Fedora needs that to play Audio CD's.

I have updated the kernel and udev but I still can't play cd's, not even as root.

The list with updates was very long, it took me forever to download them but the updater freezes after a while. Then I picked only the kernel update, rebooted and picked the udev update but that didn't solve my problem.

I guess I'll just give up fedora core 3 and get back to mandrake, that looks like a more newbie friendly distribution.

Thanks for the help and a happy new year !!

Roel

Pick a nearby mirror server. Avoid the master site, which suffers from access by too many users.
Well, in case you decide to give it another try, please supply the forum members with more details. You didn't even mention which CD playing software you tried or what exactly the error message said.

Here it just works out-of-the-box, with XMMS configured to use digital input (which doesn't require an audio cable between CD drive and audio chipset).

Sorry about that, I just used the program that popped up when I inserted my CD (Crystal Empire by Freedom Call) and that gave me a CD error.

Then I tried the other programs in the audio menu, including the Cd rippers but they gave me a CD error or an error saying they couldn't access the CD (something like /hde/cdrom , I can't see that because I'm installing mandrake now..)

The same thing happened when trying as root.

I had no problems what so ever with my Cd's when I was using Red Hat 9.0, but I guess Fedora or Red Hat aren't the right choice for me as I don't host web pages and stuff, I just want to use my PC for Open office, the gimp, lilypond and so on.

Next year I 'll follow networking with unix in school and they use Red Hat as one of the OS's so I'll try again then.

Nice to see people are helping each other out here, one day I'll do my share and help the new noobs out


Roel

I have FC3 also. I am having a problem playing CD as a non-root user. The error that displays is "drive error". When I play the CD as a root user the CD play fine.
I tried to set the /etc/security/console.perms entry for sound from:
To:
then I created the audio group and added my user to the group. However, this still did not work.
What else must I do to play audio CD from non-root user?

I'm also having the same sort of problem. The issue, if I understand it correctly, might have something to do with the way that these "all in one" drives is mounted. Right now, my drive mounts under /media/cdrecorder, but when I use an audio cd, I get nothing out of it. By the way, the default CD player for Gnome on my machine is gnome-cd (according to "Removable Storage").

hey, I read the /etc/fstab and the device actually is /dev/hdc. I noticed in the properties of the cd player the drive points to /dev/cdrom, which Ihink could be the problem. how do I change fstab so users can control /dev/hdc?

I think that'll solve the issues. It cannot play because it cannot find the device.

/etc/fstab and Audio CDs are completely unrelated, because audio CDs are not mounted. Your Linux owns the /dev/hdc device file by default when he logs in and can use the device via /dev/hdc or a softlink from /dev/cdrom.

than what is the problem? I looked around, and on fedoras bug page there was a bug in pam, I updated PAM, with no change in how my computer works.

ok, I updated gnome-media....that did nothing,

I also tried to rechange it to /dev/cdrom, it said there was no device
I tried /media/cdrecorder no device again
I tried /dev/hdc this error came up:

You do not seem to have permission to access /dev/hdc.
This means that the CD player will not be able to run.

the audiocd looks like its mounted

ok, progress. If I'm right the device for audio cds is /dev/audio. but when I go point the cdplayer to that it once again shows up as no device, and when I go to mount /dev/audio it says there is no line in fstab or mtab.

Audio CDs are not mounted at all.

/dev/audio is a sound device and unrelated.

What are your file permissions on /dev/hdc? ls -la /dev/hdc

[superman@BENLAPTOP ~]$ ls -la /dev/hdc
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 22, 0 Jan 21 10:10 /dev/hdc