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

["Don Levey-7" <user=51@nabble.blu.org>]

 Dan Ritter wrote: 
> 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. 
> 
> Problems with Pulse Audio are rife; I don't think it's stable. 
> What are you running? 
> 
> I think you have a problem with the optical disk player's own 
> DAC. 
>