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

> 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.
>