On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 10:57:10 +1300 Jaco Swart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Not running Mandrake at home, but having installed it for a friend, I have a > few questions about Mandrake's setup. Guess the best way to start is with the > problems :-) > > Konqeuror takes rather long to read his floppies: 20 seconds for a floppy > that's been formated on a Windows PC, and 55 seconds for a floopy formated by > the 'drake box. Could this be related to automounting? sorry, not sure, floppies are damn slow though > > When he inserts a music CD into his CD read/rewrite drive, it does - nothing. > How can I get Mandrake to automount the CD and play it, if it is a music CD? > (even my old RH7.3 box does that :-) > it should not be mounted to play it, it has no filesystem anyway. try looking at kscd, (multimedia menu) and i think in there somewhere is a "play automatically on cd insertion" or something similar. i am assuming aordinary suadio cd, not some mp3 loaded thing. > To put the cherry on top, sound is not enabled on his box. I know, because in > Konq. he double-clicked a wav file, which opened a player that started playing, > but no sound. Er. Is there any setting somewhere that disables sound that I can > check before I go hunting for sound drivers? I THINK that if it looks as though it is playing, but no sound is coming out the speakers, then sound IS enabled, otherwise I don't think the program would even begin to play it, but would give an error message. first step (as already identified) check the volume! secondly lsmod will tell you what modules are loaded, the sound drivers should be moderately obvious after that the usual lspci to see what the chipset is. mandrake uses alsa by default i think. http://www.alsa-project.org has a very good soundcard matrix showing what is & is not supported. > > thanks & rgds > > Jaco > -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
