Audio cd not recognized

[T6]

"It was a new Compaq last year. I upgraded the cpu and added a nvidea 9 series card, etc.  Anyway,the mother board has 2 sata ports and one ide port. I have a 250 gig sata hdd in it so I used the ide port for my cd/dvd drives. I've used it this way with three different operating systems and have never had a problem until kde4."

if you haven't tested it on another os you can't say that kde4 is the problem, still can be old hardware failing

if you had tested it on another os, you can say that kde4 is not working properly with your hardware

you haven't answered my question,. what kernel are you using?  verify in synaptic what kernel you have installed

[pags]

about sata, why did you installed ide drives in a new pc?  sata is the way(for now), ide is too delicate to use
When I said I built it, i kinda meant rebuilt it. It was a new Compaq last year. I upgraded the cpu and added a nvidea 9 series card, etc.  Anyway,the mother board has 2 sata ports and one ide port. I have a 250 gig sata hdd in it so I used the ide port for my cd/dvd drives. I've used it this way with three different operating systems and have never had a problem until kde4.

" the weirdest and nonsense recommendation, put master as slave and slave as master and boot system to see results"
I  switched them back and forth but it's still the master that doesn't want to work.

Johnboy,  I used the find files/folders utility and searched for /etc/fstab under /  and came up with nothing.   That's all I know to do so if it's here and you know it's here
why don't you enlighten me on where it is?

See picture...

or, from a konsole, type:

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ls /etc/fstab -lhand press [ENTER]

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[Was_Just19]

Johnboy,  I used the find files/folders utility and searched for /etc/fstab under /  and came up with nothing.   That's all I know to do so if it's here and you know it's here
why don't you enlighten me on where it is?

The file called   fstab   is in   /etc

Use your file manager to navigate to the   /etc    directory and look for the file     fstab. Open it with a file editor and copy and paste the contents into a post.

[BubbaBlues]

Found it

# Entry for /dev/sdf1 :
UUID=079c2aee-a58f-4856-b94b-5e4ac673d299 / ext3 defaults 1 1
# Entry for /dev/sdf6 :
UUID=1f731083-5188-4f8a-9043-b8cc4258b217 /home ext3 defaults 1 2
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
# Entry for /dev/sdf5 :
UUID=8142f8b3-2f1d-4ada-8fba-7fad39e2ee0c swap swap defaults 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0

[BubbaBlues]

T6, it's kernel 2.6.26.8
Every part in this computer is less than a year old and nothing is worn out or obsolete. This configuration has been tested and used successfully in several operating systems. There is no reasonable explanation for this problem other than a kde4 bug. There are others too such as not being able to set my display resolution and save it
without it reverting back to the default every time I reboot. I still haven't found a solution to that either.  I'm really trying hard to get a grip on this and I really appreciate you guys taking time try to help.

[Was_Just19]

OK, seems nothing in fstab is interfering.

This seems to be the crux of the matter

The drive now sees the cd as an audio cd, gives me choices to play with KsCD or Amarok, but neither one of them will play it.

From what I can determine here, KDE4 seems to allocate one of the drives for such things as playing audio CDs, and the applications use that default.

If you wish to play an audio CD in the other drive it appears (to me) that you have to change the default setting in the application to point to the other drive, and then it plays fine.

I am using an upgraded KDE (3 to 4), but have one internal drive and one external (USB) drive, not two internal ones.

Would you please try a CD in the problem drive, and if it does not play then attempt to change the default location the application is looking at to the location of the other drive, and then see it the CD plays.

I used VLC here for the tests ... Media - Open Disc   and on the Disc Tab select Audio CD, and in the Disc Device location put the device node (/dev/???) of the other optical drive, then select Play at the bottom of the page.
Similar settings would be available for other media players also.

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It sure seems like there is some problem with KDE4 and optical media.
Trying to open an inserted audio CD in a file browser gives me

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Could not display "cdda://sr1/".
Error: DBus error org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name :1.548 was not provided by any .service files
Please select another viewer and try again.
The contents of the CD will not display in Konqueror, Nautilus or Dolphin.

I can play the disc in any players I tried ....... by making the changes to the default drive the app looks at.

Previously when an optical disc was inserted hal/udev created a mount point 'on the fly' under /media for that disc.
That is no longer happening here ........ which seems to be the cause of the problem. Without that mount point I guess the browsers will have nowhere to look for its contents and any apps depending on the mount point will surely get confused.

BUT
             maybe things are supposed to be done differently in KDE4 - I do not know!

[T6]

"without it reverting back to the default every time I reboot."

try to add to the kde4 autostart krandrtray, i had this problem too and this beautiful app fixed it and also adds a nice menu to change resolutions directly in your kde4 desktop, it is happening to a considerable amount of users now, lets hope kde4 team is working on a solution, the system decides to revert back the resolution to the default value(no idea where it takes this value)

about the kernel you can try a newer kernel, there is other in synaptic, 2.6.27.31.tex5  install it and boot using it, compare results

do you experience this behavior as root?

log in as root and try with the same cds to see how that goes

[BubbaBlues]

Am downloading new kernel now, haven't rebooted yet.  Added krandrtray to startup.

Johnboy, there aren't any settings like that in amarok, kaffiene, or KsCD, or at least none of them even see the dvd drive.

Newe kernel is installed now and going to reboot.  Fingers crossed....

[BubbaBlues]

Damn!  This time the master drive plays but the slave drive won't.    Screen resolution problem went away though.  krandrtray must have fixed it. Thanks my friend.
OOPS,  sorry.   

Well after almost two days of screwing with this I suppose there is no solution.  I do a lot of reading and writing of audio for my band and I have to have both drives working. I don't see any alternative to using another system that works.   Hopefully when the next release comes out, the bugs will be worked out. Thanks very much guys for your help. Sorry if I pissed anyone off.  It was never my intention.

[T6]

if kde4 is not for you, try gnome, you can install it form synaptic and log to it from login screen menu

if you can replicate the problem in gnome after rebooting the machine using gnome with the new kernel this would be a real problem that could require a more experienced user knowing how to force the drives to be recognized by the system

i still think that you have a hardware problem but can't be sure

[Was_Just19]

Not a hardware problem IMO.

What is wrong is that the system latches on to one optical drive and will not play a CD from the other one unless the default location is changed.

What is causing that I do not know, but the error I reported above should allow someone who knows about these things to sort it out.

I tried Xine -- would not play the CD in the second drive -- until I changed the default location to that drive (/dev/sr1)
Normally  /dev/cdrom  as default should allow an app to play the CD from either drive, but this is not functioning at present, it appears.
Errors such as 'No MRL', or 'Cannot find input plugin for MRL [cdda://]'  are indicative of this problem.

Essentially I am saying I can confirm the problem here also.
The second optical drive is not being integrated into the system.

regards.

[T6]

thanks for confirm this JohnBoy

it sounds like one of you guys can do a bug report with a very decent amount of information to kde

i can't confirm this because i have a usb external burner and all the apps just work perfectly without any questions

[Was_Just19]

thanks for confirm this JohnBoy

it sounds like one of you guys can do a bug report with a very decent amount of information to kde

i can't confirm this because i have a usb external burner and all the apps just work perfectly without any questions

One of my burners is also external ....

[T6]

and the .... means what exactly?

that i only have one external dvd burnar and that is bad or dumb because?

[Was_Just19]

and the .... means what exactly?

that i only have one external dvd burnar and that is bad or dumb because?

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