FC3/Gnome CD audio question

[Mark Knecht]

Hi,
   First post to this list. Thanks in advance.

   I run a few Linux boxes at home so I have some experience but I'm
not an admin type. Mostly Linux just works and in the past
Redhat/Fedora has been easy. However this time (FC3) it isn't as easy.
Help!

   First, and help me make sure this is correct, since this is FC3 I
think I'm running Gnome 2.8. Is this correct?

   The machine is up and on the net. Alsa is working. I can use aplay
and get audio playing wave files from disk. The problem is I cannot
play CDs. When I insert a CD in the CD drive I automatically get a
gnome-cd instance up on the screen but it says 'Drive error'. I get
the same response whether I use the DVD or CD drives.

   The machine has two drives, a DVD+-RW and a CD. FC3 set up fstab as such:

/dev/hdd                /media/cdrom            auto   
pamconsole,fscontext=system_u:object_r:removable_t,exec,noauto,managed
0 0
/dev/hdc                /media/cdrecorder       auto   
pamconsole,fscontext=system_u:object_r:removable_t,exec,noauto,managed
0 0

   When I look in gnome-cd's preferences dialog I see it pointing at
/dev/cdrom, not dev/hdd (or hdc) nor is it pointing at /media/cdrom.
Is something supposed to set this automatically or am I supposed to do
this based on my hardware configuration?

   I found this post in the forums:

http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/printthread.php?t=26621

which seems to imply some sort of udev problem, and maybe a fix, but
what the fix is isn't listed and I don't know anything abut udev. I
tried the idea in the post

. ln -s /dev/hdd /dev/cdrom
2. chmod +rw /dev/hdd

which allows the CD to start playing, but so far no audio.

   I've also tried changing the devce in gnome-cd to /dev/hdc,
/dev/hdd, /media/cdrecorder and /media/cdrom. All create various error
messages when a CD is inserted. (One about permissions. Is this a PAM
issue?)

   Thanks in advance for any pointers you can give me.

Cheers,
Mark