Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.1 Music cd

Fri, 16 Nov 2001 02:16:42 -0800


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
(see http://www.mandrakeexpert.com ).
If all else fails, try creating an incident here.
 
HTH,
Hugo.
 
 
----- Original Message -----
From: Ethan
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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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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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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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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