problem getting audio to work properly on my FC4 box

[Steven C. Liu]

BTW, I've confirmed that it's not a hardware issue.  I was able to load 
alsaplayer and get sound to come out of the speakers.  I also ran totem 
from the commandline, and got an error message saying it can't find 
/usr/lib/gnome-vfs2/modules/libcdda.so.  True enough, the file is not 
there.  I googled, and discovered many folks who think it should be part 
of the std gnome-vfs2 rpm.  However, when I did a --filesbypkg, I 
discovered that *my* rpm (ver 2.10.0 rel 5) does not contain that lib.

What do I do?

BTW, I can't figure out how to get alsaplayer to play my audio CD.

Steve

Steven C. Liu wrote:

> 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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