CD support

[Francois Ouellette]

> On Thu, 2005-03-17 at 21:55 -0700, JOHN H DURRANT wrote:
> > Hey gurus,
> >
> >   Thanks for the help from a couple of days ago.  I have made some
> > progress in getting my CD to work with audio files.  First the good
> > news.  The CD 'works' when I log in as root.  I look at the
> > permissions of /dev/hdc and sure enough the owner (root) cad read,
> > write and execute but the group and others can only read, not write or
> > execute (hence can read data but not execute the CD Player).  So I log
> > in as root and set the permission to 755 or 777.  Log out and log in
> > as me and now the CD 'works'.  I reboot the machine and the
> > permissions revert back to the original condition.  How do I get the
> > permissions to 'stick'?
> >
> > Now the bad news.  Even though the CD 'works', I can't get music out.
> > I can rip a file and then play it from the hard disk but can't play it
> > directly from the CD.  I have a cable connected from the CD to my
> > sound card.  Could it be the permissions of my sound card?
> >

I had the same problem and Paul Howarth from this list helped me to solve
it.
I use a CD-RW/DVD-ROM combo. If you have only a CD reader then try
creating the file  /etc/udev/rules.d/10-custom.rules
containing the following line:
BUS="ide", KERNEL="hdx", NAME="%k", SYMLINK="cdrom"

If you have a CD writer:
BUS="ide", KERNEL="hdx", NAME="%k", SYMLINK="cdrom cdwriter"

(replace "hdx" with the name of your device, for example "hdc").

then re-boot. The CD drive should now belong to the user who logs-in and
have symbolic link(s) to /dev/cdrom and /dev/cdwriter depending on your
settings.

Now, the sound controller panel has to be scrolled all the way to the right
to find the sliders for the controls of the CD music, which are "muted" by
default after the installation. Uncheck the mute box and the sound should
come out!

Good luck!

  François Ouellette
<fouellet at idirect.com>