Audio cd : no medium found (kinda solved)

Question

hi recently installed new arch 86_64 system, openbox, / and /home are on ext4 journaling partitions
thunar with thunar-volman
i can read/play/open: dvd movies, data dvds, data cds, wav files on computer, usb data, play mp3s with MPD.
i cannot open/play a audio cd with xine, smlayer, abcde, vlc
The following were performed with an audio cd in:
$ sudo cat /dev/sr0
cat: /dev/sr0: No medium found
$ aplay /dev/sr0
/dev/sr0: No medium found
$ abcde
cd-discid: /dev/sr0: CDROMREADTOCHDR: No medium found
[ERROR] abcde: CD could not be read. Perhaps there's no CD in the drive?
xine /dev/sr0
This is xine (X11 gui) - a free video player v0.99.6-[DEBUG].
(c) 2000-2007 The xine Team.
videowin: display is using xinerama with 1 screens
videowin: going to assume we are using the first screen.
videowin: size of the first screen is 1440x900.
videowin: Xinerama fullscreen parameters: X_origin=0 Y_origin=0 Width=1440 Height=900
pixel_aspect: 1.009326
params.c:OpenConfFile() - Unable to open configuration file "/home/nigex/.smb/smb.conf":
        No such file or directory
params.c:OpenConfFile() - Unable to open configuration file "/etc/samba/smb.conf":
        No such file or directory
xine: could not connect to socket
xine: No such file or directory
$ /lib/udev/cdrom_id -d /dev/sr0
main: probing: '/dev/sr0'
cd_media_compat: CDROM_DRIVE_STATUS != CDS_DISC_OK
cd_inquiry: INQUIRY: [Optiarc ][DVD RW AD-5540A ][1.J0]
cd_profiles: GET CONFIGURATION: number of profiles 308
cd_profiles: profile 0x2b
cd_profiles: profile 0x1b
cd_profiles: profile 0x1a
cd_profiles: profile 0x16
cd_profiles: profile 0x15
cd_profiles: profile 0x14
cd_profiles: profile 0x13
cd_profiles: profile 0x11
cd_profiles: profile 0x10
cd_profiles: current profile 0x00
cd_profiles: no current profile, assuming no media
ID_CDROM=1
ID_CDROM_CD_R=1
ID_CDROM_CD_RW=1
ID_CDROM_DVD=1
ID_CDROM_DVD_R=1
ID_CDROM_DVD_RW=1
ID_CDROM_DVD_PLUS_R=1
ID_CDROM_DVD_PLUS_RW=1
ID_CDROM_DVD_PLUS_R_DL=1
ID_CDROM_MRW=1
ID_CDROM_MRW_W=1
$ cat /etc/group
root:x:0:root
bin:x:1:root,bin,daemon
daemon:x:2:root,bin,daemon
sys:x:3:root,bin
adm:x:4:root,daemon
tty:x:5:nigel
disk:x:6:root,nigex
lp:x:7:daemon,nigex
mem:x:8:
kmem:x:9:
wheel:x:10:root,nigex
ftp:x:11:
mail:x:12:
uucp:x:14:
log:x:19:root
locate:x:21:
rfkill:x:24:
smmsp:x:25:
http:x:33:
games:x:50:
network:x:90:
video:x:91:nigex
audio:x:92:nigex,mpd
optical:x:93:nigex,hal
floppy:x:94:nigex,hal
storage:x:95:nigex,hal
scanner:x:96:
power:x:98:nigex
nobody:x:99:
users:x:100:nigex,mpd
dbus:x:81:
nigex:x:1000:
hal:x:82:
avahi:x:84:
mpd:x:45:
$ cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
# <file system> <dir> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
devpts /dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0
shm /dev/shm tmpfs nodev,nosuid 0 0
#/dev/cdrom /media/cd auto ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0
#/dev/dvd /media/dvd auto ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0
#/dev/fd0 /media/fl auto user,noauto 0 0
/dev/sda2 / ext4 defaults 0 1
/dev/sda3 /home ext4 defaults 0 1
/dev/sda4 swap swap defaults 0 0
from rc.conf:
MODULES=(!pcspkr !snd-pcsp)
DAEMONS=(syslog-ng dbus hal network netfs net-profiles crond alsa)
so i cant play or rip an audio cd
any help would be appreciated, i be kinda googled out, thanks
Last edited by psyodin (2010-05-02 18:41:29)

Answer 1

well this morning i tried a different cd then cd's. now i was trying 2 random, apparently non damaged cd's last night and they did not work. the one i try this morning works!
however the 2 that didnt work on my arch last night will play on a different computer of ubuntu flavor.
2 things here: i cant believe i randomly grabbed 2 audio cd's last night that didnt work...out of 100's that apparently do. i cant  believe one linux OS works and the other does not with those 2. so thanks for help, still kinda confused though.