I had the same problems and found some work-arounds (not real fixes): 1. Download the initscripts RPM from the MandrakeUpdate *bug fixes* section. It mentions that supermount init scripts were miscoded. This won't fix all of supermount's problems, however. Hopefully, 8.2 will do that. 2. 8.1 changes your CD device name from "cdrom" to "cdrom0" and the links between the two are buggy. No matter how many times I "fix" the cdrom link, some script somewhere returns the buggy one. 3. fscd (the file name of "CD Player" in KDE) lists your CD player as /dev/cdrom in its options dialog box. On my machine, CD Player would crash every time I tried to change this option from within the CD Player program. I checked in DrakeHard (or HardDrake?) and saw that my Cd was named /dev/hdc. So, I found the config file for kscd (can't recall now where it was ... I'm not at that machine right now... used the "find" function and searched for *kscd*) and used an editor to change the device name, by hand, from /dev/cdrom to /dev/hdc. Rebooted the machine and... the angels were singing! 4. Grip, another CD player, needs options set on the command that starts it. Use the KDE menu editor to locate Grip so that you can see the properties of the startup icon (icons that fly out of the "K" menu won't let you see properties). Add -d /dev/hdc (or whatever your CD is called in HardDrake) to the start-up line for Grip, save and reboot. It should work, too.
Problems seems to lie with device names and links between them. They get confused in upgrades to 8.1. Mike -----Original Message----- From: Derek Jennings [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 14, 2002 9:52 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Cdrom supermount If you look at the list archives you will see this question comes up regularly. Supermount is broken in 8.1. It will work again in 8.2 Do not use it, Disable it with supermount -i disable Mount data CD's manually either by command line, by clicking on the CD icon, or by running kwikdisk Audio CD's Do NOT need mounting. If kscd is configured properly they will play when you insert them. derek On Monday 14 January 2002 10:14, Nick wrote: > I think that this question was asked before, but I never saw much of an > answer. After updating from 8.0 to 8.1 my system no longer mounts CDs > automatically. It will not even read aduio CDs when I try to mount them > with iso9660. In fstab it is using supermount for the drive and I am not > sure what that does. I think that was changed during the update. Thanks
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