Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 13:07:08 -0500 From: "Conrad J. Sabatier" <conrads@cox.net> To: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Cc: jerry@seibercom.net Subject: Re: Can't access a music CD (or any other media now) Message-ID: <20111024130708.575b8c97@cox.net> In-Reply-To: <20111023182114.27de6815@scorpio> References: <4E924B4D.4050801@centurytel.net> <20111010063740.GA23603@orange.esperance-linux.co.uk> <4E92BF3C.8080807@centurytel.net> <20111010104450.GA28895@orange.esperance-linux.co.uk> <4E9616FD.5080404@centurytel.net> <447h49yed0.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> <4E9627A6.8000907@centurytel.net> <44vcrtohej.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> <20111013162524.GA75476@freebsd.org> <44wrc8iz09.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <20111018195712.GA18773@freebsd.org> <4E9F7899.6070401@centurytel.net> <20111020051902.1d120865.freebsd@edvax.de> <20111023153829.216f1a49@cox.net> <20111023182114.27de6815@scorpio>
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On Sun, 23 Oct 2011 18:21:14 -0400 Jerry <jerry@seibercom.net> wrote: > On Sun, 23 Oct 2011 15:38:29 -0500 > Conrad J. Sabatier articulated: > > > On Thu, 20 Oct 2011 05:19:02 +0200 > > Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> wrote: > > > > > > What if you use Gnome's CD playing application, or something > > > like XMMS with the CD audio plugin? I think your permissions > > > are okay so you could make the drive play from your (non-root) > > > user account. > > > > No, it seems that there's a severe level of "brokenness" that has > > been introduced into the source tree with regards to CD devices. > > I've been exploring this issue on my own system the last couple of > > days, and am no closer to arriving at a solution than when I first > > started. > > > > None of the CD-related apps I have installed are working. cdcontrol > > will read an audio CD OK, it seems, but playback is useless, since, > > like most newer machines, I have no direct connection between the CD > > drive and the audio device. > > > > Apps such as kscd, xmcd, etc. report no disc or no device found. > > grip (using cdparanoia) will detect an audio disc and even fetch the > > correct cddb info, but ripping fails completely. xmms reports "no > > appropriate ioctl for device". > > > > This is progress? > > I tried raising this issue over a year ago; however, it never got any > traction. > Well, as I mentioned in an earlier followup, it's not *quite* as bad as my first impression led me to believe. After rebuilding a few ports and adjusting the naming of my CD device for some of them from the "/dev/cd0" device name to the SCSI address instead, they're working once again. The problem remains, though, with all of the audio CD playing apps I've tried. Either they don't detect the drive, don't detect the disc, or fail to read it properly. Grrr! It's definitely not a hardware issue per se, as I had Ubuntu running on this box a while back and all the audio apps were working just fine. If there have been some changes made in the kernel sources that necessitate patching each and every audio CD-related port, then there's something seriously wrong here, and it's time to take a step back and look at what's going on. -- Conrad J. Sabatier conrads@cox.net
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