Charles A Kunce wrote:
Kaffeine says my audio CD device is /dev/cdrom. I have one of those, it is a link that points to hdd. Don't know if this makes a hill of beans worth of difference, but the implicit_config option us turned off.
Mine is the same, and this all sounds correct.
Been mucking around uninstalling stuff (Kaffeine, xine, libxine etc) and reinstalling. Now when I put in an audio CD, the system ejects it after about 15 seconds or so. You can run an rpm -V on those packages to see if they have changed since install. With Linux, it is usually the user config files that get messed up and not the files only root can write to mess up. When you watch My Computer, you see the system recognize the CD as an audio CD, then the Audio CD entry disappears from My Computer and the CD ejects. Since an audiocd is not mountable, it may disappear (have never watched it), but it shouldn't eject. Are there any pertinent messages in /var/log/messages? It recognizes what it has for a few seconds and then something comes along and says "Oh no you don't".
Perhaps the automounter, which realizes it cannot automount but instead runs a program. Have you checked your automounter settings (assuming KDE) at Configure Desktop (Personal Settings), Peripherals, Storage Media, under Medium Types, choose Audio CD. What are the choices there? It hasn't by any chance somehow got eject there does it?
Regular data CD's are just fine. The system recognizes them, you can bop around in directories and they don't disappear. But they ARE mountable, unlike audio cds. When I manually fire up the Xine UI, it says it is missing MRL's. Running xine-check at the command line prompt doesn't turn up any errors, just a suggestion to turn on DMA for the CD Rom.
I really don't want to reinstall again just in case something was munged on the original install. No need to reinstall. It is much better to learn and grow by actually fixing the problem. It gives you a lifetime warranty- if it breaks again, you will be able to fix it again. I went though a couple of those to get this far (text only install, APIC(? never can remember how to spell that) Power functions turned off, etc.).
Is it a possible hardware problem. It doesn't sound like it, but if acpi or apic were a problem, then anything is possible I guess. It definitely makes things more interesting to troubleshoot. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.2 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org