I added udev by urpmi sometime after my initial clean installation because I was after flexibility for my flash drives. I actually followed a Flash USB howto that appeared to work in that particular session but afterward it just got to be confused so I resolved to sort it out for myself. ( I also installed sysfs and a couple of other requirements at the time.)
I'm running Mandrake10 Official ~ KDE-3.2.3 ~ Kernel-2.6.3-7 and have stuck with it because I needed to install the OpenGL + nvidia drivers for a little 3D experience.
Your reply makes sense and I will look to that shortly, but for now, though I can mount data cds and dvds, ( manually ) as user OK , and read/write the contents, ~ but I am unable to get my audio cd's playing anymore nor does it appear that supermount is actually working, ( I say 'appear' because things might be going on in the background that I'm not privy to yet.)
> How are you trying to play audio CDs?
At one time after I had installed udev I used to place a blank dvd in my writer and k3b would fire up automatically ~ not at present however.
I believe this is handled by magicdev, but I could be wrong.
I have been following your efforts here and gone the way of symlinks in my .rules file and created links to replace things like /mnt/cdrom2 in case my system needs to look for that instead of /mnt/dvd-cd when relating to /udev/hdd or /dev/hdd ( one and same device of course which troubles me a wee bit ~ same device listed twice ~ don't understand this part yet. ie. Why is the /dev directory still about when I have uninstalled devfsd and issued " devfs=nomount " within lilo? As yet ' the penny ain't dropped ' on this one.)>
The /dev directory will stay unless you delete it. (I don't recomend that!). The /dev directory entries should still work. They are used during boot, before udev is started, and the udev file system is mounted. With Mandrake 10.1, the udev file system is mounted on top of /dev. This has the affect of hiding the old entries, while still leting commands that expect to find the device nodes in /dev still work.
So a question to get me started here ~ how can I check that supermount is working ? eg. is there some way to log it's efforts so as to get some clues for troubleshooting ? )
ps ax | grep supermount mount | grep supermount
The first should show you if supermount is running, and the second should show any active supermount mounts.
Mikkel --
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