On Tuesday 29 March 2005 09:04 am, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > SnapafunFrank wrote: > > 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. Try an audio CD lens cleaner disk sometimes works for me also check if your cd is mounted before you start if so un mount it also I have found that a lot of the cheaper cds some in a pack can be good some bad > > 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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