Re: how to play audio cd

[Tom Gilbert <gilbertt tomgilbert freeserve co uk>]

* Patrick von der Hagen (patrick.vdhagen@gmx.de) [990807 18:48]:
> On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 08:22:03PM -0500, Scott Haug wrote:
> > It isn't a gnome issue, but strangely enough this was dealt with on this 
> > list about a week or so ago.  You can follow the thread here.
> I think Iīll just join the club...
> 
> I am using an old Sony-8x-CD-ROM which works absolutely fine when I am
> using xmcd, kscd, xmms or any Windows cd-player application.
> 
> It worked fine with gtcd a long long time ago... Back in the old days,
> gnome 0.20 or gnome 0.25. But nowadays, it doesnīt work anymore. :-(
> 
> To be specific: I can use kscd to start cd-audio-playback and then view
> the display of gtcd which is updated correctly (well, about half a second
> delay, compared to kscd). I just canīt perform any actions with gtcd.
> I canīt start, eject, skip tracks, etc.
> 
> No gtcd error-messages, but the kernel (2.2.10, but 2.0.35 showed the
> same problems) reports (twice):
> hdd: irq timeout: status=0x80 { Busy }
> hdd: ATAPI reset complete
> 
> My cd-rom-drive has two lights: green, indicating normal access, red
> showing cd-audio-playback. gtcd causes it to flash green once or twice,
> and thatīs it. Audio-playback is never started.
> 
> I think, that specific gtcd-problems are off-topic here, but since it has
> been started...
> 

You're not mounting the CD first are you? I can't think why else the
Kernel would report busy.

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