linux cd player...

hi,

i have rhl 7.3 and the cd player isn't working right... it will only play the cd for about 2 seconds and then stop... i know its not the cd becuase ive tried several. it works fine with data cds.

help!!
thanks,
-sean

try running your CD player from the command line in the foreground and see what messages are coughed up - then post them back here.

Christo

ok, im not quite sure what to type.

okay, say you're using alsaplayer (a popular cd player), you need to run if from the command line. To do this, open up a console and at the command line, type

# whereis alsaplayer
/usr/bin/alsaplayer

and you'll see it tells you where it is, so then you can call it directly from the command line, which means that all it's stderr output will come back to your console. You can redirect the whole lot into a file (let's call it outputfile). You can then look through this file and if you're lucky, understand what the errors are saying and maybe fix 'em... so here's how to run the player and capture the output:

# /usr/bin/alsaplayer > outputfile

outputfile will then contain all that stuff -

chris

well, its not putting anything in the file?

# touch outfile
# chmod 666 outfile

to ensure outfile exists and open up the read/write permissions on outfile


Then try again

# /usr/bin/alsaplayer > outfile

Any good?
Christo

nope, still nothing!

is the application starting when you try to run is from the prompt?
What is the name of the CD player application you are using?
Have you tried any others (Alsaplayer or XMMS are good)

christo