Hi, I've been hard at work getting nothing done as usual. I have three things I'm trying to accomplish but lets start with #1 and see if I can't get this to work. I've been trying to figure out how to use my cdrom. I have been reading the cdrom HOWTO. This is what I've done so far:
crossyourfingers:/home/kent# ln -s /dev/hdd /dev/cdrom crossyourfingers:/home/kent# chmod 664 /dev/hdd crossyourfingers:/home/kent# ls -l /dev/hdd brw-rw-r-- 1 root disk 22, 64 Jul 20 19:45 /dev/hdd I can use the commands "cdplay" and "cdeject" just fine as a regular user. I can listen to a music cd through my headphones. I have an "extras" cd with my debian package and I would like to look at what it contains. I put the cd in, used the command "mount /mnt/cdrom" and got a message back that said there wasn't anything in the "/etc/fstab" file (there was another file listed but I forget what it was) so I followed the directions in the HOWTO. I put the following line in the file, "/dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom iso9660 user,noauto,ro" Tried again and got the error "mount: mount point /mnt/cdrom does not exist" Went back into the file and removed the following line "/dev/hdd /cdrom iso9660 noauto,nouser,ro 0 0" Tried to mount again same error "mount: mount point /mnt/cdrom does not exist" So that is what I have done. What I would like to do is be able to listen to music cd's through my speakers. I put a cd in I start it, I verify it is working through my headphones, I take the headphone jack out and no sound. When I type an error (like try to backspace when there is no more space to travel) I get a beep that comes through my speakers. I don't understand much about sound cards. I don't have one in a slot. I looked in windows and came up with "Crystal PnP Audio System" maybe that is my sound card. It seems to me if Linux can use my speakers in one instance but not another there is a linkage problem? I would also like to view what is on a particular cd without having to install what is on that cd. thanks, Kent
