[Sussex] Debian install - Still no sound (from cdrw/dvd)

[John D.]

On Sunday 14 September 2003 8:11 pm, Steve Dobson wrote:
<snip
> > > john at debian:~$ cdplay -d /dev/hdc
> > > cdplay: ioctl cdrommsf
> > > john at debian:~$
>
> I have to admit that I have no idea why you're getting this.
>
> > > Which is really confusing me, because when I put a disc in the dvd
> > > drive and do either "cdplay -d /dev/hdb" or just "cdplay", the disc
> > > starts spinning and the green light on the front of the drive is
> > > flashing away like "a good'un".
<snip>

> Well one option is to connect the lead to the DVD rather than the CDRW and
> only play CDs on your DVD.

To be honest, I'd rather not, as I feel sure that while the differences 
between mandrake and debian are considerable, that if a "newbie/desktop 
distro" can sort it automatically, then I should be able to get this sorted 
with the correct "choices" for the configuration of the device (if only I 
knew how to modify the configuration):)
>Try the command "dmesg | less".  It will show you some important kernel
> messages that were reported at boot time.  This can be very helpful in
> determine how the kernel has configured the devices it has found.

I have done this and can see the following references to the cdrw or "hdc"!

PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
    ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
    ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
hda: WDC WD1200JB-75CRA0, ATA DISK drive
hdb: IDE DVD-ROM 16X, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdc: CW058D ATAPI CD-R/RW, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15

and this

hdb: ATAPI 16X DVD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
hdc: ATAPI 48X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache
ide-floppy driver 0.97.sv

Should there be some driver information with the "hdc" entry? or is it 
suggesting that there is no driver installed for the cdrw/hdc ? or is it 
suggesting that it is trying to use the floppy driver ??


> > Oh, and I did the "apt-get install grip" which seemed to install, it
> > started once, but it couldn't see the disc/drive, but now won't start at
> > all. So I'm not at all sure what's going on there.
>
> As whom are you runnng it?  Check the permissions on the device files at
> the end of the /dev/cdroms/* links.

I had already removed it, as I thought it better to concentrate on learning 
the in's and out's of one cd player at a time (besides, as I use kde, rather 
than gnome I thought it the best option).

regards

John