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CD stuff
pkd_lives:
Okay, it's time to get this stuff learnt. So to basics.
CD eject seems to be very strange. When I had RH7.3 on the cd draw would eject once, and then after closing it would not open again until I logged off. Mandrake is very slow in ejecting CDs.
I am trying to play some MP3s and some CDs(normal purchased type) using XMMS. Unfortunately it does not see the CDs, and hence I cannot play them.
I have a matsushita DVD/CDROM and a teac CDRW. The recognition of CD and using CDs seems to be related to some interaction with the two drives. Does anyone else have a problem running two drives? I am currently running Mandrake 8.2 (because RH cannot use the network adapter). Oh and, before you ask, this is the fire system. I watched Life of Brian on DVD on it last night using XINE, so it seems to work alright there. XINE does not work on the CD.
Should XMMS run 'out of the box'?
Does Linux handle Drives differently in comparison to others OSs.
I will soon be trying a few things out, but I thought I would float this here first.
voidmain:
Most of todays Linux distros today come set to automatically mount the CD when it is inserted. You can not eject the CD by pressing the button if it is mounted. You must first unmount it (which also means no programs can be accessing the directory structure on the CD).
You can normally umount the CD as a normal user by right clicking on the CD-ROM ICON on your desktop. There should also be the capability to eject it from this ICON. Another way is to use the "umount /mnt/cdrom" command, or just type "eject" which will unmount the CD and eject it. You can even run the "eject" command from a run box in your GUI.
[ October 04, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]
pkd_lives:
Cheers. I had absolutly no idea of this. That answers a lot of questions straight off. Well no need perform some of the tests I was going to do.
I think I have configuration issues (or rather issues related to my own ignorance at this moment in time).
TheQuirk:
Did you get the music CDs to work?
pkd_lives:
No CD music yet. I am certain it's something simple related to something I don't yet know. maybe permissions or configuration.
My computer is now finally my own, and no-one else uses it so I can at last devote time to learning. That is as long as I can stand the noise from the fan - since the fire it sounds about the same as a commercial hovercraft, that's why I wanted the music.
Thanks anyway. I think learning Linux is going to be one of my winter projects, that is as long as New England gets it's proper winter (six foot of snow on average - yay I love this area of the world). I fancy the idea of doing this for a living (or sideline)
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