On Saturday 28 Dec 2002 1:10 am, Josenildo Marques wrote: > On Friday 27 December 2002 08:30, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > What have you tried, apart from Kmix? Have you tried playing an .mp3 > > file, or a cd? Are you getting system sounds? Any info you can give us > > will help us to point to the next step > > Cd's, mp3's and system sounds are playing. > The thing is that when I try to open a .kar file [ a kar file is a midi > file with lyrics] Kmid doesn't output any sound. It's possible to see it is > working because I can see when the text scrolls down, which presumably > means that it is really playing. Other midi files are working > fine in Kmidi. > That sounds as though you are fine for most things. I don't know .kar files, so I can't help on that. I suggest that you start a new thread with a title 'Playing .kar files' or similar, so that someone with experience of them will notice the post and come back to you. > I have also had a bit of a headache trying to mount and unmount the cdrom. > Sometimes automount works but other times it simply and unexplicably says I > have not the access rights to the device. > So, I tried > #mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom > > But I don't know how exactly that device is called in Mandrake Linux. > Are you using KDE? There are some issues with supermount under Mandrake 9.0 - it works well for some and not at all for others, so there's a certain amount of trial and error. One thing is for certain - if you set up supermount and then manually mount or umount you will cause yourself problems, so you need to set up one option, try it out, and if it doesn't work properly go on to the second option. Option 1 - supermount. Go to Mandrake Control Centre, select Mount Points, and click on your cd drive icon. You may see that it is listed as hdx (where x = another letter depending on your other drives) or as scd0 or scd1. If your drive is a cd-rw it will need to be scd0 or scd1, so come back to us if it isn't. If it's only a cd reader either setting is OK. You will find that some options are already set there, depending upon what is already written into your /etc/fstab. You may need to change things under the Options screen. First, make sure that 'user' is selected - otherwise only root will be able to access the drive. Make sure that supermount is selected. If this is a straight forward cd reader drive, that's all you need to do. If it's a cd-rw drive, you will need to open up the Advanced tab, and unselect 'read only'. If supermount is going to work for you, that should do it. By the way, be careful to OK things, and watch out for the message that comes, rather slowly, in small type near the top of the screen asking you if you want to save your changes. Otherwise nothing will be changed. If you have saved correctly the changes will be written to your /etc/fstab. Option 2 - if supermount does not work properly for you (simply mounting and umounting as it would under windows, i.e. when a disc is inserted or ejected) then you will need to get rid of it. Simply follow Option 1 steps again, unselecting supermount. Again, be careful how you come out, making sure the settings are saved. If you do this you will need to create an icon on your desktop (right-click > Create New > CD/DVD ROM Device) which will allow you to mount and unmount from a right-click menu. Either way, come back if you need help. If you do, find /etc/fstab and copy it into your message, so that we can see what's happening. Good luck Anne
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