cd ripping problems (no-sound wav's)

[Kepa Lyman]

When ripping cds, using various front-ends (though sound juicer refuses to 
even start, says something about not having a plug-in to access CDs), I can 
only get blank wav files.  This is using cdparanoia, with kaudiocreator or on 
the command line.

my system is up-to date with latest yum update as of this morning, don't know 
if anything broke or not becuase I hadn't tried to rip before.

I'm not sure if this is a FC test2 issue or a KDE issue, but with the same 
hardware it rips fine under windows/CDex.

Thanks

Kepa