problem getting audio to work properly on my FC4 box

[Steven C. Liu]

Hi folks,

I have an FC4 server that had only a DVD-RW (identified by CD Player as 
SONY DVD RW DW-D26A) drive in it for a long time.  I know that I've used 
it just fine to read and burn data CD's and DVD's.  Since it was a 
"server", I believe I've never bothered to see if I can play audio CD's 
from it.

Recently, I added a 2nd optical drive (according to CD Player - CD-RW 
CRX216E) that once was fully functional in another PC.  Please assume 
that I added the second drive correctly from a h/w perspective - i.e., 
jumpers and cables are NOW all correct.  (I had initially reversed the 
sequence of the master and slave units on the ribbon cable.)

Now, I am trying to get the darn thing to play regular audio CD's -- I'm 
using a regular store-bought copy of an audio CD that plays just fine on 
EVERY other machine at home, including an FC4 "desktop" -- and I get 
problems with CD Player, Totem and Music Player:

* CD Player - can read the track information, but cannot play any of the 
songs.  None of the buttons are greyed out, but "play", "fwd" and even 
using the slide bar has no effect on getting it to play.  BTW - it 
doesn't even go through the motions of playing - i.e., it is NOT the 
case that the slide bar moves and no sound comes out - it truly seems 
not to work.
* Totem can't seem to run.  It tries to start up, but then quickly dies 
with the following message: "Resource busy or not available".
* I pulled up firefox to play an mp3 off the internet, and Music Player 
complained with the following error message: "Internal GStreamer error: 
negotiation (or pad) problem.  File a bug."  I think I applied the 
correct RPM's.  The only one I'm not sure of is this: 
gstreamer-plugins-mp3-0.8.8-0.lvn.1.4.i386.rpm.  Should I have used an 
i686 version?  Here is the output of 'uname -a': Linux 
numenor.steven-c-liu.com 2.6.15-1.1833_FC4 #1 Wed Mar 1 23:41:37 EST 
2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

Do I have an actual hardware problem?  How can I isolate a hardware 
problem from a software configuration problem?  When installing FC4 from 
DVD, isn't there an audio test?  Do I need to run MAKEDEV?  (I think not.)

I tried to back out of my hardware changes - i.e., unplugging the new 
optical drive and plugging the cables into teh original drive exactly as 
it was in the beginning -- and still no success.

Help please.  TIA,

Steve
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