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Old 05-02-2006, 01:58 AM   #1
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Couldn't display "cdda:///dev/hdc" - Audio CD issue


So... I reformatted my linux partition and re-installed Gentoo on it again, from scratch. Everything went well till I tried to play an audio CD.

It prompts me this error when I click in the audio CD icon in the desktop:

Code:
Can't display location.
Couldn't display "cdda:///dev/hdc".
If I try to open the cd player that comes with GNOME, it recognizes the CD, identifies the names of the songs and artists, seems to be playing it, but I have no sound whatsoever.

My sounds work perfectly otherwise, I just can't play audio CDs.

My CD drive works perfectly too, I can read data without issues - The issue is exclusively with audio CDs, it recognizes them, it just doesn't play them.

Also, before formatting I could play CDs normally, I've been trying to find what I did differently but I can't figure it out.

My guesses were either something in the kernel, ALSA or fstab... but I've tinkered with them without any sucess. I tried making the options of the cd drive noauto and user to see if ti helped any, reconfiguerd ALSA, browsed around in the kernel... not sure what else to do.

The cable that goes from the DVD drive to the motherboard is also in place, I haven't moved any hardware from my PC since I formatted, and as I mentioned before, it worked before I formatted the partition.

The symlink to it points to:

Code:
localhost ~ # ls -l /dev/cdrom
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 3 May  2  2006 /dev/cdrom -> hdc
In the same way /dev/dvd also points to hdc.

Any suggestions?
 
Old 05-02-2006, 04:48 AM   #2
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Hm, actually...

The CD player from GNOME and Totem are playing the CDs, the only issue is when I try to open it from the icon that appears in the desktop.

Strange...

Any ideas why it'd prompt that error message?
 
Old 05-02-2006, 07:38 AM   #3
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Any ideas why it'd prompt that error message?
Yeah. You can't mount audio CDs. That said, GNOME may have an audio slave (like KDE) which lets you browse an unmounted audio CD, but I don't know. If not, then there's at least one good reason to upgrade to KDE.

You had me going earlier, in your other thread. I was racking my brains trying to figure it out.

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Old 05-02-2006, 03:47 PM   #4
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Yeah. You can't mount audio CDs. That said, GNOME may have an audio slave (like KDE) which lets you browse an unmounted audio CD, but I don't know. If not, then there's at least one good reason to upgrade to KDE.

You had me going earlier, in your other thread. I was racking my brains trying to figure it out.
Yeah, tell me about it. I was going nuts about that. I'm usually nitpicky enough to go crazy about any tiny meaningless error.

Now it makes sense, though.

Will browse around and see if I can find something that allows browsing.

Thank you so much for the help, regardless!
 
  


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