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Sent:
Friday, November 16, 2001 10:14 AM
Subject:
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.1 Music cd
Hugo Ferreira wrote:
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Ethan,
I have had the exact same problem and have
finally solved it.
Anyone please feel free to correct or
suggest a better way of doing this.
Try the following:
1. log in as root (in a KDE (or any other)
X session, I'll assume KDE for KMixer).
2. unmount the cdrom (just in case, and do
as Sridhar indicated):
umount
/mnt/cdrom
Do it twice to make sure
it is not mounted. Make sure ypu have no
CD in the
drive.
done.
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3. Do a "ls -la /dev/hdc" to make sure it's
there
4. If it is, you must now set a sym link
from /dev/cdrom (which your player needs) to
the "/dev/hdc" which is the device that you
know works because the /mnt/cdrom is also the
mountpoint of the /dev/hdc device and that worked for you. We will do the
same for "/dev/cdrom"
ln -s /dev/hdc
/dev/cdrom
[root@Echelon dev]# ln -s /dev/hdc
/dev/cdrom
ln: `/dev/cdrom': File exists
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5. Now make a "ls -la /dev/cdrom" to check
the link. You should see that the permissions will
enable anyone to use this mount
point.
6. Place a CD and fire up your CD player.
You should now have music.
Still get
permissions error.
BTW, what does blinking white text over red
background mean ??
i get:cdrom@
[root@Echelon dev]# ls -l
cdrom
lr-xr-xr-x 1 root
root 16 Nov
17 2001 [cdrom -> ../cdroms/cdrom0 ] <---- blinking white over
red background....
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7. If you don't, fire up your KMixer and
make sure the volume is up. Do the same for
your speakers. If this does not work, you
are out of luck. See below for more hints**
8. Assuming you got this far and all is ok,
then change the access for the CDROM.
Do a "chmod 666
/dev/hdc".The "ls
-la /dev/hdc" should confirm the changes.
9. log out of root
10. Login as a user
11. Fire up your CDPlayer (and KMixer) and
enjoy.
**
Ok. If you did not make it, you have to
make sure your sound card is ok (only works if
you have the sound card connected directlly
to your CD Drive). Place a CD in the
drive,
press the drive's play button. Launch the
KMixer. Twiddle with the KMixer's volume and
speaker's volume to check for sound. Works,
ok no major hardware problem.
Next. Test the cards driver. Here someone
may help me. How can we do this. I have an
ISA sound card ad used RedHat's sndconfig.
After probing and set-up, this utility samples
two files. You should here the sound. Any
other way to do this?
I got my CDPlayer working thanx to DaveF
who is a Mandrake expert
If all else fails, try creating an
incident here.
HTH,
Hugo.
----- Original Message -----
Sent:
Friday, November 16, 2001 2:49 AM
Subject:
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.1 Music cd
my cdrom is not mounted and umount gives:- umount:
/dev/cdrom: not found
I still cannot figure out why I cannot
play the music CD. normal CDs I am able to see and work with.... pls
help. thanks, /ethan
Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
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type="cite">Assuming that your CD-ROM drive is /dev/cdrom:
# umount /dev/cdrom
This should be done as root. Once done, try playing your CD.
On Thu, 15 Nov 2001 15:24:23 -0000
"Hugo Ferreira" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Sridha,
How do you do this?
H.F.
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From: "Sridhar Dhanapalan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Ethan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Mandrake Newbie List"
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Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 2:53 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.1 Music cd
On Thu, 15 Nov 2001 22:45:42 +0800
Ethan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Myers, Dennis R NWO wrote:
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Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 8:10 AM
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Subject: [newbie] Mandrake 8.1 Music cd
Hi all,
I am trying to play Music CDs under Mandrake 8.1 but the error from
the
CD player says: CDROM read or access error, make sure that you have
access to /dev/cdrom.... the permissions are root:root but ls -lL does
not give any output... pls help how can I play CDs on the CDrom? BTW,
I
can mount a normal CDROM....
thanks,
.ethan
Ethan, are you using something like CDplayer or Alsaplayer? You can
not mount a audio CD, it is just put in the CDROM and then started
from the CDplayer. Not being well versed in command line I use the
players I installed on the KDE desktop so am not shure how you use an
audio player from command line. But if you use KDE click on the
kpanel>multimedia>sound and pick alsaplayer and then click on the
folder icon on the left of the gui and your CD should start. HTH
I am using CD player from the KDE>multimedia option. Not using from the
command line. It does _not_ work.... like I said, it gives the error
above. pls help. thanks, /ethan
Make sure that the CD-ROM drive is not mounted, as has been mentioned
above.
Supermount shouldn't give any trouble, but sometimes it helps to disable
it.
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