Can't access a music CD (or any other media now)

[Michael D. Norwick]

On 10/24/11 13:24, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Oct 2011 20:30:39 -0500
> "Michael D. Norwick"<mnorwick at centurytel.net>  wrote:
>
>> On 10/23/11 19:25, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote:
>>> On Sun, 23 Oct 2011 15:38:29 -0500
>>> "Conrad J. Sabatier"<conrads at cox.net>   wrote:
>>>> No, it seems that there's a severe level of "brokenness" that has
>>>> been introduced into the source tree with regards to CD devices.
>> <  snip>
>>
>> Good Day;
>>
>> Ditto on this thread.  No amount of deinstall/reinstall, recompiling
>> kernels and world, or config file tweaking have granted me success.
>> As I have posted; I am on
>>
>> $uname -a
>>
>> FreeBSD ****.****..net 9.0-RC1 FreeBSD 9.0-RC1 #0: Sun Oct 23
>> 12:32:55 CDT 2011
>> root@****.****.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/KERNEL_102311  amd64
>>
>> on a Dell Latitude D630.
> [snip]
>
>> I haven't had much luck searching freebsd-multimedia@ either.  Bug
>> report time?
>>
>> Thank You,
>> Michael
> Do you get any better results if you use the SCSI address of your drive
> instead of the device name?
>
>> cd0 at ata0 bus 0 scbus1 target 0 lun 0
> Try using:
>
> export CDDA_DEVICE=1,0,0
> export CDR_DEVICE=1,0,0
>
> And see if your cdrtools at least work.  Audio CD playing apps still
> have problems, though, unfortunately.
>
Thank You,

Setting these environment variables had no effect on my machine.  
$cdcontrol play 1 still produces drive activity but no sound.  The 
graphical apps I am trying such as Abraca, or MPlayer, still do not seem 
to recognize an audio CD.  Gnome Audio CD Extractor - Sound Juicer - 
still errors with 'No CD-ROM drives found' even though Metallica is in 
the drive.
I am doing $portupgrade -a with updates downloaded today, to see if it 
will change anything.  Other than that FreeBSD 9 is working splendidly 
on this laptop.

Michael