Re: FC5 won't play music CDs :(

chuckcar wrote:
Mark Bratcher <mbratch.UN@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:qhyzg.11535$8j3.6551@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

Hey all...

I was on RedHat 9, happily so. Everything worked. Dual boot into old Win98, and everything also worked.

I upgraded to FC5. Now my CD-ROM won't play music CDs. Data CDs seem
to be fine. Doesn't matter whether they're CD-Rs or pre-recorded. If I
use cdda2wav to rip a CD, it gives me a wav file but it may either
have just noise, or a noisey version of the song. Dual boot into Win98
and I can rip CDs fine.

The settings on the CD drive seem normal (DMA is on, 32-bit I/O is
on). The device is /dev/hdc. My hard drives are on /dev/hda and
/dev/hdb. I don't have anything plugged into /dev/hdd (IDE 1, slave).

Any help/guidance appreciated.


First - get simple: unmount /cdrom; put a music CD (bought - *not* one
you make) close the tray, then type: workbone. If it still doesn't play
sound or click over, you have connection/hardware problems, otherwise
it's the settings for your cdplayer app - most probably uses ALSA and
defaults to OSS - there should be settings in it to change sound type.
IF workbone crashes, post any messages you get. Also what app you use
for cdplaying, what window manager you use.


Thanks for the resonse Chuck.

I didn't have "workbone" installed, so I found a 2.3xxx version RPM and installed it. When I ran it, it showed me the keypad layout with a "waiting....initializing XX" message. XX counted down from about 6 to 0, then the program exited.

I don't think it's a hardware connection issue because it works fine (same HW) under Windows 98 (when I dual boot to Win98).

My system seems to have OSS and ALSA. If I run XMMS for instance, though, only OSS works. If I select ALSA it doesn't play mp3's or anything. I don't know if that has any significance in the context of this problem.
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