The answer to #3 is below. And furnish any information with workaround that you guys might have with supermount and cd player/ripper/dvd programs.
Noah On Mon, 2002-01-14 at 16:19, Mike Cochrane (MC) wrote: > 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! ~/.kde/share/config/kscdrc > 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 > > > > > > ---- > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- http://ld.net/?nswint Registered Linux User Number 254358
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