What's with the GNOME CD player?

[Basil Chupin]

On 04/01/2011 14:56, MR ZenWiz wrote:
> I have two DVD burners in my system, which is running Maverick with GNOME 2.32.
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> Now I put a CD in drive 1, the CD player comes up and fails to read
> the CD.  If I open drive 1 and move the CD to drive 0, then,
> miraculously, CD player will read it and sometimes recognize what the
> tracks are.  (I'm talking about commercially recorded, purchased CDs
> here.)  Then when I extract the tracks, they land in approximately the
> right place.

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> But if I closed drive 1 and put a different CD in drive 0, it goes
> through the same BS as above, except this time it knows there's a CD
> in drive 0 but it's trying to read it from drive 1.  If I leave drive
> 1 open, it seems to have less trouble recognizing the CD in drive 0,
> reading it, ripping, etc. (except it still doesn't get the titles
> right).
>
> So I'm wondering:
>
> 1. What happened to the configuration file for the GNOME CD player for
> 2.32?  It either doesn't work or is ignored or got moved to ???
>
> 2. Does the CD player normally get confused when there are more than
> one CD/DVD drive in the system (and why)?
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Your post sounds a lot like another, similar, problem mentioned in 
another thread (still active) here.

I am not really sure if it is totally related to GNOME 2.32.

I have a CD/DVD reader as sr0 and a CD/DVD burner as sr1.

When I use k9copy it always comes up with sr1 as the "source" for the 
DVD even though the DVD is sitting in sr0. In the k9 configuration 
setup, sr0 is the first choice for the source of the DVD/CD.

When installing openSUSE - note openSUSE-, for example, after the 
initial installation process has completed the installation sequence 
tells one to remove the CD/DVD so that the system can reboot. At this 
point the sr1 tray is auto opened (with nothing in it of course) and I 
have to manually open sr0, take out the DVD/CD before pressing ENTER for 
the rest of the installation to complete.

(Eh, sorry, but I cannot remember is this also occurs when installing 
Ubuntu :-( .)

BC

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