On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 10:18 -0400, William L. Maltby wrote: > <snip> > After this, I'll pop in Mark Knoppfler's "Shangri-La" and diff the two > files. > <snip> OK. I've attached a diff and sdiff output. Used together, fast identification of what changed from idle to playing can be achieved. I would expect you should see something similar, adjusted for your setup. Maybe a clue will emerge. This is on a fully updated CentOS 5.2. BTW, forgot to ask if you have a CD player (can't remember the start of thread). If so, when you insert a CD, does it show on the desktop? And what application do you use to play it? I'm using the stock cd player that comes with the Gnome desktop. On 5.1 I've also used mplayer for DVD on this w/o problems (totem doesn't work - missing plugins and never had an interesting in tracking them down). HTH -- Bill -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: play.diff.gz Type: application/x-gzip Size: 610 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080703/695af41f/attachment-0006.bin> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: play.sdif.gz Type: application/x-gzip Size: 3567 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080703/695af41f/attachment-0007.bin>