Hi, Now I've got my CD player working, I can also use XMMS to play CD's Here's what I had to do to do it. Go to the XMMS Options->Preferences screen You should have a list of Audio I/O plugins In your list should be a plugin called CD Audio Player 1.2.6 [libcdaudio.so] If you don't, you're missing some XMMS components and will need to install them. Probably by installing them from the SuSE ftp site. (This link is for SuSE 8.0) ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/8.0/suse/snd1/xmms-1.2.6-139.i386.rpm Press Configure to set up the plugin It has 2 boxes in the device section. Directory and Device. Make sure they point to a valid device and a valid mount point. e.g On my PC, device is /dev/cdrecorder and the directory is /cdrecorder Once you've done that, you can attempt to add files to you play list, navigate to the mount point you set up in the plugin and the CD files should be in there. Hope this helps Later Jason

Yes, I want to play Audio CD's with XMMS too. But I can't. Why? I can't an option in any menu or icon from XMMS interface, Do I need a plug-in? What should I do? thanks for any help a.

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There's nothing wrong with your fstab file. Look at the configuration in the player you are using and check that it is looking at the cdr device. Probably it is looking at the other cdrom in your computer. This however is not much help if you want to be able to play from both devices. I will have to play on my system a little because I always use XMMS to play CD's, and this has never been a problem. What players have you tried?

Ian

I've sorted it out now :) Thanks to everyone who gave me advice. I was using KsCD, but in the configuration screen, the CD device was set to /dev/cdrom I only have the writer in my machine which is /dec/cdrecorder, SuSE must have assumed that I had a CDRom device too so it must have set up the CDrom apps to use /dev/cdrom instead of /dev/cdrecorder /dev/cdrecorder is a link to /dev/sr0 /dev/cdrom was a link to /dev/hdc After I got KsCD working by changing the device I was using, I altered the /dev/cdrom link to point to the cdrecorder. Now everything can see the CD and play audio happily Thanks Jason

Jason, Your CD-Writer is being identified as a SCSI device using ide-scsi emulation so XCD-Roast will recognize it properly. This makes CD music players choke for some reason and they don't see the device. I guess they are looking for an IDE CDROM instead of a SCSI device. The difference is /dev/hdc versus /dev/sdc0 in the /dev directory. The kernel uses special designations for each file in the /dev directory to identify hardware. These designations are called major and minor device numbers. Suffice to say, for some reason, if you need to emulate SCSI with the ide-scsi module for burning CDs or DVDs then the player programs usually won't work right. I am sure there is a workaround but I don't know it yet. The ide-scsi module is usually invoked at boot using the /etc/lilo.conf file to configure LILO to boot with the appended parameter. Dow

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Hi everyone,

This might sound silly, But I can't play Audio CDs with my CD Writer. But I can mount the drive and read data from it.

This only happened when I installed SuSE 8.0, My 7.1 worked fine with Audio CDs.

Windows can play them no problem so it's not a hardware issue.

When I attempt to play a CD using anything it says Disk ejected. When I attempt to mount the drive, it says:

/dev/cdrecorder: Input/output error mount: I could not determine the filesystem type, and none was specified

The contents of my FSTab file is:

/dev/hdb3 / reiserfs defaults 1 2 /dev/hdb1 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/cdrecorder /media/cdrecorder auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 /dev/hdc /media/ls120 vfat noauto,user 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs noauto 0 0 /dev/hda1 /windows/C vfat noauto,user 0 0 /dev/hdb2 swap swap pri=42 0 0

Does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks in advance.

Jason