Re: Laptop CD player, audio CDs, no sound (Fedora 8)

["Dan Ritter-2" <user=13@nabble.blu.org>]

 On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 03:54:59PM -0400, Don Levey wrote: 
> No joy in Mudville.  I've not used XMMS in quite a few years; I 
> installed it and tried to play the cda files.  I can find them with no 
> problem (after I manually created the /media/cdrecorder directory to 
> which the CD now mounts) but as soon as I click "play" xmms terminates. 
> 
> I do get the following error, which suggests I've got some sort of 
> problem with the sound engine (or at least the digital portion of it): 
> 
>    "*** PULSEAUDIO: Unable to connect: Connection refused 
> 
>    ** WARNING **: alsa_setup(): Failed to open pcm device (default): 
>    Connection refused 
> 
>    Segmentation fault 
> 
>    You've probably found a bug in XMMS, please visit 
>    http://bugs.xmms.org and fill out a bug report." 
> 
> What's odd is that this did work - and I can still play sound files 
> resident on the machine, just not CD audio.  The CD is switched on in 
> the mixer, as well as any other switch that looks like it might help. 
> Within Grip, I believe I've got it set up to rip via cdparanoia.