Can't play audio CD's
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From: tim1948 on 2 Apr 2010 13:01 I recently installed FreeBSD 8.0 (i386), with the GNOME desktop. When I insert an audio CD, the following message appears: "Unable to mount audio disk. Dbus error org.freedesktop.Dbus.Error.NoReply: Message did not receive a reply (timeout by message bus)." Similar problems have been noted elsewhere: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?p=48091#post48091 I configured the installation for automounting by non-root users, etc. Data disks are accepted, and so are movie DVD's. (Actually, I rarely play audio CD's, the only medium affected by this problem. But I have enough interest in it to wonder if anyone knows how to solve it.)
From: Lowell Gilbert on 3 Apr 2010 12:49 tim1948 <iconoklastic(a)yahoo.com> writes: > I recently installed FreeBSD 8.0 (i386), with the GNOME desktop. When > I insert an audio CD, the following message appears: "Unable to mount > audio disk. Dbus error org.freedesktop.Dbus.Error.NoReply: Message did > not receive a reply (timeout by message bus)." That message doesn't indicate a problem. Audio disks don't need to be (and, in fact, can't be) mounted as a filesystem. > Similar problems have been noted elsewhere: > > http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?p=48091#post48091 You might want to go back through that thread. It covers a number of different issues, most of which may apply to you. > I configured the installation for automounting by non-root users, etc. > Data disks are accepted, and so are movie DVD's. (Actually, I rarely > play audio CD's, the only medium affected by this problem. But I have > enough interest in it to wonder if anyone knows how to solve it.) Please note that you haven't actually described *what* your problem is. Being unable to mount audio CDs is *not* a problem, so I'm going to guess that you try to play a CD and get no sound. As the Handbook discusses in the "Testing the Sound Card" section, you need an analog audio cable from the CD drive to the audio device (probably on the motherboard in newer/cheaper systems) to get sound from playing a disc with cdcontrol(1). Other programs for playing CDs probably have a configuration option for doing digital audio extraction, which will obviate the need for the cable and (on most hardware) give you better sound quality. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/
From: Frank Wuest on 4 Apr 2010 15:23 Lowell Gilbert <lgusenet(a)be-well.ilk.org> wrote: > (and, in fact, can't be) mounted as a filesystem. > I'm having the same problem, and in my case, it means that I can't use Sound Juicer to read audio cds, and I can't write CDs with brasero. After tweaking with gconftool-2, as described in the hal-faq, I was at least able to read data CDs. This shouldn't have been necessary, since I haven't upgraded Gnome. Gnome correctly detects the media type, but gives me the aforementioned error message even if I set the permissions to rwxrwxrwx on /dev/cd0. If I don't, I get 'access denied' on /dev/cd0. I've installed atapicam and use cdda2wav plus a script which creates mp3s out of the CD, so its a non-issue for me. As for writing CDs of any type, Gnome prompts me what I want to do when I insert a blank disc, but after creating a compilation, Brasero asks me to insert a blank disc or write to an image file. > > Please note that you haven't actually described *what* your problem is. > Being unable to mount audio CDs is *not* a problem, so I'm going to At this point, and since I'm having a few other issues with Gnome, I can only guess that there are some inconsistencies that result from installing Gnome with pkg_add. From what I've seen so far, this generally seems to be a bad idea on an i386 system. Quite a few packages weren't found, and cups came out broken. Plus, the system configuration tools don't work. Nothing that bothers me, but since I've spent too much time just getting the optical drive to work, I'll rebuild Gnome from ports before investigating this any further. I'll just need a little too much time on my hands :-/ Cheers, frank -- Use Cadaver's Caskets for comfort.
From: tim1948 on 4 Apr 2010 23:55
On Apr 3, 9:49 am, Lowell Gilbert <lguse...(a)be-well.ilk.org> wrote: > tim1948 <iconoklas...(a)yahoo.com> writes: > > I recently installed FreeBSD 8.0 (i386), with the GNOME desktop. When > > I insert an audio CD, the following message appears: "Unable to mount > > audio disk. Dbus error org.freedesktop.Dbus.Error.NoReply: Message did > > not receive a reply (timeout by message bus)." > > That message doesn't indicate a problem. Audio disks don't need to be > (and, in fact, can't be) mounted as a filesystem. > > > Similar problems have been noted elsewhere: > > >http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?p=48091#post48091 > > You might want to go back through that thread. It covers a number of > different issues, most of which may apply to you. > > > I configured the installation for automounting by non-root users, etc. > > Data disks are accepted, and so are movie DVD's. (Actually, I rarely > > play audio CD's, the only medium affected by this problem. But I have > > enough interest in it to wonder if anyone knows how to solve it.) > > Please note that you haven't actually described *what* your problem is. > Being unable to mount audio CDs is *not* a problem, so I'm going to > guess that you try to play a CD and get no sound. As the Handbook > discusses in the "Testing the Sound Card" section, you need an analog > audio cable from the CD drive to the audio device (probably on the > motherboard in newer/cheaper systems) to get sound from playing a disc > with cdcontrol(1). Other programs for playing CDs probably have a > configuration option for doing digital audio extraction, which will > obviate the need for the cable and (on most hardware) give you better > sound quality. > > -- > Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer > http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ I connected the only CD-ROM cable I have, but it is not keyed (with a notch) to prevent incorrect insertion, so I am not sure it is correct. Even after installing xmms, I encountered the same warning message. However, if the audio CD track is selected from within xmms, it does play (with sound, of course). Perhaps xmms is not the ideal client? At a minimum, I would like insertion of the CD to open a client automatically and start playing the CD. |