On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 06:35:25PM +0000, Bruno Gravato wrote: > Both gnome-cd and cd player applet in gnome-applets fail to start > playing audio cd. > > gnome-cd hangs for 1 or 2 seconds when starting but then it detects the audio > cd in the drive and correctly retrieves cddb info. > When I hit play it hangs for bit again and (most of the times) it doesn't > start playing (sometimes it plays for less than a second and then stops). > When closing gnome-cd it also hangs for about 2 seconds. > device selected is /dev/cdrom which is a link to /dev/hdd (my dvd-rom) > > I can successfully play audio cds with cdcd (console cd player). > Now the most weird is that if I run cdcd and leave it opened in the > console (without typing any command), then gnome-cd (and the cd applet) > start working correctly (I can play, stop, change track, etc). > If I close cdcd the cd stops playing and both gnome-cd and cd applet stop > working like before. > device selected in cdcd is also /dev/cdrom > > gnome-cd and the cd applet used to work sometime ago before I did some > upgrades (I can't tell which packages I've upgrading since then sorry :( ). > > > I don't know if this is related to this problem, but I've recently noticed > that when I insert a data dvd on my dvd-rom syslog gets filled with this > messages: > > Mar 2 17:27:46 localhost kernel: hdd: packet command error: status=0x51 > { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } > Mar 2 17:27:46 localhost kernel: hdd: packet command error: error=0x54 > Mar 2 17:27:46 localhost kernel: ide: failed opcode was 100
I don't know what the applet does. But older versions of gnome-cd played a cd by sending commands to the cd drive to play, while new versions actually extract the data from the cd and play it in software. Your kernel entries could indicate a hardware problem. Can you try to extract the audio from your cd using cdparanoia, so we can determine if it's actually possible for gnome-cd to get the data it needs ? Sjoerd -- God is the tangential point between zero and infinity. -- Alfred Jarry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]