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So far,I've tried with the commands "eject" and "eject-t" to open the tray,and also I used a command to make it play (wich I have forgotten)If you by "manually" mean physically,there's a button that ejects the tray mechanically.So,opening it is not a problem.It won't even play good cd's,and there's no blinking light when I insert them.
Reidar
Last edited by warrington; 05-16-2012 at 01:12 PM.
Reason: I forgot some important information
Music CD's are handled differently to data CD's. Music CD's are not mounted as a data CD is. I play music CD's with either VLC or Audacious. You have to configure the application to look at the CD drive. From your first post /dev/cdrom or /dev/sr0 should work.
Is automount installed on your system? My guess is before it was, it may not be after the 'upgrade'.
There are many other applications besides the ones I mentioned that will play an audio CD. Each has its own configuration.
I used the term 'manually' earlier to find out if you had issued a mount command for a data CD or DVD. From your answer, I think not. Automount can be set up to detect the type of media, and use the correct commands to make it run. If you do not have automount installed, then you would have to 'manually' enter commands to do things with the drive.
I've installed automount.Also,I've installed a transitional autofs-package.This is the output I got,when I tried to run automount:
reidar@reidar-Presario-R3200-PA473EA-ABN:~$ automount
automount: this program must be run by root.
reidar@reidar-Presario-R3200-PA473EA-ABN:~$ sudo-s
sudo-s: command not found
reidar@reidar-Presario-R3200-PA473EA-ABN:~$
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