Can't play CD's on SuSE 9.0

From: panther (nospam_at_nowhere.net)
Date: 06/24/04 

Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 18:41:24 GMT

I am unable to figure out how to play cd's, that is,
how to play audio CD's using my SuSE 9.0 professional
with a KDE desktop. 

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A lot of people have been complaining they can't play
CD's and their problem is they have the volume turned
down in KMix.  That's not my problem.  In KMix I have
the volume under the little picture of a CD up at the
max.  (The red light under the scale is not on, whatever
that means).  More importantly, in their cases I think
they are getting the KsCD GUI coming up visibly on
the screen, and I'm not even getting that.
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KsCD:
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In SuSE 8.0, I could play CD's with KsCD, selected
from Menu -> Multimedia -> (audio or something) -> KsCD.
I had to put them in the DVD tray rather than the CD-rom
tray for some reason, but it worked.
Since then I upgraded to SuSE 9.0 personal, found out
there was no emacs in it, and upgraded that to SuSE 9.0
professional.
A few days ago, when I selected
Menu -> Multimedia -> CD Player -> KsCD, it came up, but
it would not respond to any buttons I pushed.  It didn't
matter whether I had the CD in the DVD or the cdrom tray.
Then it quit working altogether.  Now, when I select
Menu -> Multimedia -> CD Player -> KsCD, I get the little
flashing icon to the lower right of the cursor for about
3 seconds, then it just goes away without the GUI of
KsCD coming up on the screen.
When I do a 'ps auxww | grep -i kscd' I see that there is
a kscd process there, asleep.
I've googled around a bit and haven't found anybody else
with the same problem with KsCD.
I looked on the SuSE linux support portal and they say
  > Find out the device file for your CD-ROM drive by entering the
following command on the command line:
  >
  > ls -l /dev/cdrom
  >
  > The output line/s will be similar to this:
  >
  > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Jun 6 12:25 /dev/cdrom -> /dev/hdb
  >
  > /dev/hdb is therefore the device file for the CD-ROM drive in this
example. Now we will modify the permissions for this file according to
our needs. Please proceed as follows:
  >
  >    1. Login as root in the command line by entering the command su
and then answering the password request.
  >    2. Now enter chmod 640 /dev/hdb to assign access rights for your
CD-ROM drive to the group.
  >    3. Then assign your CD-ROM drive to the group "disk" by executing
the command chgrp disk /dev/hdb.
  >    4. Finally, make sure that you belong to the group "disk". Use
YaST or YaST2 user administration for this purpose.
so I followed the instructions up through step 2.  Step 3
was unnecessary since the file already belonged to the group
"disk".
I couldn't get Yast2 to put me into the group "disk", but
I figured I could put myself into the group "disk" by editing
/etc/group directly.  I did this, and also found out that the
permissions of the device file were reset to protected every
time I reentered the desktop.
So I rebooted, entered the desktop, did the su & chmod on the
cdrom device file, and entered Menu -> Multimedia ->
CD player -> KsCD.  The GUI KsCD did not come up on the screen,
and like before, a kscd process came up sleeping.  ps auxww
shows it as
  > USER       PID %CPU %MEM   VSZ  RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
  > panther   3095  0.0  4.6 30500 18080 ?       S    21:13   0:00 kscd
-session 117f000002000108804874200000071460010_1088050107_318244
OK, so I can't get KsCD working.  Neither the SuSE user guide
nor the administrator guide are any help.
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WorkMan:
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The SuSE 9.0 personal manual says there is another audio CD
player, "WorkMan".  But
   > find / -iname '*work*man*'
did not find the player.  Looking for it in the Yast2
software installer turns up nothing.
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xmcd:
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There is also Menu -> Multimedia -> CD player -> xmcd,
which when I run it, the user interface does come up on
the screen, but it says "no disc" whether I have a cd-rom
in the cdrom tray or the dvd tray.
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cd-console:
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I did a search on Yast2 for 'cd' and found cdcons, a
console oriented (ie non graphical) cd player.  I did
a search for it with find / -iname '*cd*cons*'
and found it was really named cd-console, which neither
Yast2 nor the cdcons documentation told me.
When I ran cd-console, it said no disk was present, whether
I had the disk in the cdrom tray or the dvd tray.  Note this
is the same thing that xmcd is saying.
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Note that I get an error if I try to mount the cdrom.
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