FC3 Audio CD Problems

[David Mangani]

David Mangani wrote:

> Jesse Jarzynka wrote:
>
>> I had this when I first installed it I think, but after installing 
>> apt from freshrpms and doing upgrades it seems to have fixed it. The 
>> only thing I still notice is I can't add cd audio tracks to xmms. 
>> There is no longer /mnt/cdrom etc, but there is /media where the 
>> cdrom(s) sit. Even when trying to add them that way though it doesn't 
>> seem to work.
>>
>> Something I've noticed though is Core 3 restarts easy, but doesn't 
>> seem to want to shut down. It gets to "ACPI Power Off" called and 
>> then hangs. Anyone else? -Jesse
>>
>> On Tue, 2004-11-16 at 17:28, David Mangani wrote:
>>
>>>/Hi all. I am having a problem. My cdrom drive works fine with data cd's 
>>>but will not play audio cd/s at all. I get an error
>>>
>>>> /dev/hda: Input/output error
>>>> mount: /dev/hda: can't read superblock
>>>
>>>
>>>This is a brand new problem since installing FC3. I also tried as root 
>>>user with no luck. I read in another forum that some people have had 
>>>trouble with this issue so I tried it just to see. It seems I have this 
>>>issue as well. I haven't seen a solution, although one poster made a 
>>>passing reference to this and that is was easily solved. Unfortunately 
>>>he was replying to a previous post with lots of questions and he only 
>>>just touched on some of the issues. Any one run into this or know what 
>>>could be wrong? FYI, the cd's are good, they play fine in another player.
>>>
>>>Thx
>>>
>>>Dave
>>>
>>>/
>>>
> Thanks for the reply. I also use apt/synaptic, do you recall what you 
> upgraded when the problem went away? This seems like such a basic 
> functionality issue, hard to see how this could have slipped through. 
> I did see something regarding the power down issue. I haven't tried it 
> yet though. The poster in one of the fedora forums said the problem 
> went away after he disabled <not sure> the power saving feature in his 
> bios. Could be a struggle between the OS and the bios. My 2 cents.
>
> Dave
>
>
> P.S. I also can NOT telinit to runlevel 3 from runlevel 5. It begins 
> to kill X then simply hangs. The only way I can get to runlevel 3 is 
> to edit my initab file and reboot. weird. This held me up for a while 
> when I was installing the Nvidia drivers. So far to me anyways, FC3 
> seems kind of buggy.
>
I found the original post on Fedora forums. If anyone else has the cdrom 
issue, try this. It worked for me.

ln -s /dev/hda /dev/cdrom
chmod +rw /dev/cdrom

( on my computer hda is the cdrom, replace this as necessary)
I now have nice cd music again. Maybe this will help someone else.

Dave




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