Mike Romano on Sun, 27 Feb 2000 00:13:00 -0500 (EST)


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[PLUG] CD playing/ripping


Hi. After a long hiatus from Linux, i've recently installed Mandrake 7.0. Everything's going very smoothly, EXCEPT:

1) i'm trying to use a program called GRIP (http://www.nostatic.org/grip) 
to rip/encode some music and it says it can't "open my cdrom drive". (though it
actually can)

2) i'm trying to play CDs using GRIP, KCD, or the Gnome CD player. All open the
cd, and play it, but none actually output sound. I have a SBVibra 16 using the
latest OSS driver. All other sounds work, just not CD audio. I've tried with
and w/o esd. Permissions for the relevant devices are appended later.

I apologize in advance for the long-windedness and the dir listings, but i'm
trying to give all relevant info/explanation.

GRIP is configured to use /dev/cdrom, which is a symlink to /dev/scd0 (my SCSI
cdrom drive) GRIP can open the CD for playing (though it outputs no sound -
problem #2), but when I try to rip it gives me the "can't open cdrom drive"
error - verbose reporting only tells me that "audio status is 21" when GRIP is
idle, no additional information regarding inability to open /dev/cdrom.

root can rip, but cannot play CDs (no sound output, though programs work). 

the permissions when i intially had the problem were (afai recall):
[mromano@hrothgar /dev]$ ll /dev/cdrom
lrw-------   1 root     root            4 Feb 16 16:05 /dev/cdrom -> scd0
[mromano@hrothgar /dev]$ ll /dev/scd*
brw-------   1 mromano  disk      11,   0 May  5  1998 /dev/scd0
brw-rw----   1 root     	   cdwriter  11,   1 May  5  1998 /dev/scd1
brw-rw----   1 root          cdwriter  11,   2 May  5  1998 /dev/scd2
brw-rw----   1 root          cdwriter  11,   3 May  5  1998 /dev/scd3
brw-rw----   1 root          cdwriter  11,   4 May  5  1998 /dev/scd4
brw-rw----   1 root          cdwriter  11,   5 May  5  1998 /dev/scd5
brw-rw----   1 root          cdwriter  11,   6 May  5  1998 /dev/scd6
brw-rw----   1 root          cdwriter  11,   7 May  5  1998 /dev/scd7
brw-rw----   1 root          cdwriter  11,   8 Feb 16 15:52 /dev/scd8
brw-rw----   1 root          cdwriter  11,   9 Feb 16 15:52 /dev/scd9

I've chowned /dev/scd0 back to root, because i don't understand why my 
username should own the device (it didn't work that way either). I've also
given everyone full permissions to the cdrom symlink and the /dev/scd0 file. I
can't understand why with full permissions across the board the program cannot
open the device to rip, yet can open it to play even with the initial
permissions.

The permissions are now:  [mromano@hrothgar /dev]$ ll /dev/cdrom
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root            4 Feb 16 16:05 /dev/cdrom -> scd0
[mromano@hrothgar /dev]$ ll /dev/scd*
brwxrwxrwx   1 root     disk      11,   0 May  5  1998 /dev/scd0
brw-rw----   1 root     cdwriter  11,   1 May  5  1998 /dev/scd1
brw-rw----   1 root     cdwriter  11,   2 May  5  1998 /dev/scd2
brw-rw----   1 root     cdwriter  11,   3 May  5  1998 /dev/scd3
brw-rw----   1 root     cdwriter  11,   4 May  5  1998 /dev/scd4
brw-rw----   1 root     cdwriter  11,   5 May  5  1998 /dev/scd5
brw-rw----   1 root     cdwriter  11,   6 May  5  1998 /dev/scd6
brw-rw----   1 root     cdwriter  11,   7 May  5  1998 /dev/scd7
brw-rw----   1 root     cdwriter  11,   8 Feb 16 15:52 /dev/scd8
brw-rw----   1 root     cdwriter  11,   9 Feb 16 15:52 /dev/scd9

As far as output,
[mromano@hrothgar /dev]$ ll /dev/audio*
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           11 Feb 16 15:50 /dev/audio -> /dev/audio0
crw-rw-rw-   1 mromano  sys       14,   4 Dec  5 16:05 /dev/audio0
crw-rw-rw-   1 mromano  sys       14,  20 Dec  5 16:05 /dev/audio1
crw-rw-rw-   1 mromano  sys       14, 164 Feb 18 00:35 /dev/audio10
crw-rw-rw-   1 mromano  sys       14, 180 Feb 18 00:35 /dev/audio11
crw-rw-rw-   1 mromano  sys       14, 196 Feb 18 00:35 /dev/audio12
crw-rw-rw-   1 mromano  sys       14, 212 Feb 18 00:35 /dev/audio13
crw-rw-rw-   1 mromano  sys       14, 228 Feb 18 00:35 /dev/audio14
crw-rw-rw-   1 mromano  sys       14, 244 Feb 18 00:35 /dev/audio15
crw-rw-rw-   1 mromano  sys       14,  36 Dec  5 16:05 /dev/audio2
crw-rw-rw-   1 mromano  sys       14,  52 Dec  5 16:05 /dev/audio3
crw-rw-rw-   1 mromano  sys       14,  68 Feb 18 00:35 /dev/audio4
crw-rw-rw-   1 mromano  sys       14,  84 Feb 18 00:35 /dev/audio5
crw-rw-rw-   1 mromano  sys       14, 100 Feb 18 00:35 /dev/audio6
crw-rw-rw-   1 mromano  sys       14, 116 Feb 18 00:35 /dev/audio7
crw-rw-rw-   1 mromano  sys       14, 132 Feb 18 00:35 /dev/audio8
crw-rw-rw-   1 mromano  sys       14, 148 Feb 18 00:35 /dev/audio9
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           11 Feb 18 00:35 /dev/audioctl -> /dev/mixer0
[mromano@hrothgar /dev]$ ll /dev/dsp*
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root            9 Feb 16 15:50 /dev/dsp -> /dev/dsp0
crw-rw-rw-   1 mromano  sys       14,   3 Dec  5 16:05 /dev/dsp0
crw-rw-rw-   1 mromano  sys       14,  19 Dec  5 16:05 /dev/dsp1
crw-rw-rw-   1 mromano  sys       14, 163 Feb 18 00:35 /dev/dsp10
crw-rw-rw-   1 mromano  sys       14, 179 Feb 18 00:35 /dev/dsp11
crw-rw-rw-   1 mromano  sys       14, 195 Feb 18 00:35 /dev/dsp12
crw-rw-rw-   1 mromano  sys       14, 211 Feb 18 00:35 /dev/dsp13
crw-rw-rw-   1 mromano  sys       14, 227 Feb 18 00:35 /dev/dsp14
crw-rw-rw-   1 mromano  sys       14, 243 Feb 18 00:35 /dev/dsp15
crw-rw-rw-   1 mromano  sys       14,  35 Dec  5 16:05 /dev/dsp2
crw-rw-rw-   1 mromano  sys       14,  51 Dec  5 16:05 /dev/dsp3
crw-rw-rw-   1 mromano  sys       14,  67 Feb 18 00:35 /dev/dsp4
crw-rw-rw-   1 mromano  sys       14,  83 Feb 18 00:35 /dev/dsp5
crw-rw-rw-   1 mromano  sys       14,  99 Feb 18 00:35 /dev/dsp6
crw-rw-rw-   1 mromano  sys       14, 115 Feb 18 00:35 /dev/dsp7
crw-rw-rw-   1 mromano  sys       14, 131 Feb 18 00:35 /dev/dsp8
crw-rw-rw-   1 mromano  sys       14, 147 Feb 18 00:35 /dev/dsp9
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           10 Feb 18 00:35 /dev/dspW -> /dev/dspW0
crw-rw-rw-   1 mromano  sys       14,   5 Feb 18 00:35 /dev/dspW0
crw-rw-rw-   1 mromano  sys       14,  21 Feb 18 00:35 /dev/dspW1
crw-rw-rw-   1 mromano  sys       14, 165 Feb 18 00:35 /dev/dspW10
crw-rw-rw-   1 mromano  sys       14, 181 Feb 18 00:35 /dev/dspW11
crw-rw-rw-   1 mromano  sys       14, 197 Feb 18 00:35 /dev/dspW12
crw-rw-rw-   1 mromano  sys       14, 213 Feb 18 00:35 /dev/dspW13
crw-rw-rw-   1 mromano  sys       14, 229 Feb 18 00:35 /dev/dspW14
crw-rw-rw-   1 mromano  sys       14, 245 Feb 18 00:35 /dev/dspW15
crw-rw-rw-   1 mromano  sys       14,  37 Feb 18 00:35 /dev/dspW2
crw-rw-rw-   1 mromano  sys       14,  53 Feb 18 00:35 /dev/dspW3
crw-rw-rw-   1 mromano  sys       14,  69 Feb 18 00:35 /dev/dspW4
crw-rw-rw-   1 mromano  sys       14,  85 Feb 18 00:35 /dev/dspW5
crw-rw-rw-   1 mromano  sys       14, 101 Feb 18 00:35 /dev/dspW6
crw-rw-rw-   1 mromano  sys       14, 117 Feb 18 00:35 /dev/dspW7
crw-rw-rw-   1 mromano  sys       14, 133 Feb 18 00:35 /dev/dspW8
crw-rw-rw-   1 mromano  sys       14, 149 Feb 18 00:35 /dev/dspW9
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root            9 Feb 18 00:35 /dev/dspdefault -> /dev/dsp0


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