Slack question No.2

[johnmann]

Ok my soundbaster live card is working fine so I try to play some tunes but no sound. kscd shows my cd is playing but no sound. Volume is turned up in sound mixer and retest sound and it's ok.To get my dvd to work I put this entry in etc/fstab " /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0" I copied this line from my SuSE 7.3 etc/fstab as everything works fine. Is this entry causing a problem?How do I play music cds in Slack?

[pbharris]

hello,
is the cable connected inside the box?

[johnmann]

Yes, my *dvd is cabled correctly, pbharris.However,you did make me check cuz I installed a Sound Blaster 5.1 card a couple weeks ago and would feel like a nimrod if I forgot to cable my dvd to it.Thanks tho. Back to square one. Any more ideas folks?

[pbharris]

well i would give another CD player a shot - i use gtcd. i dunno know why but some CD players have not worked for me and others have, on the identical system.

[Guitarlynn]

check /etc/rc.d/rc.modules and makes sure that soundcore.o is loaded
before any of the sound modules. I had to add mine manually in Slack8.

[WCox]

Look to see what /dev/cdrom is linked to. You may have to symlink it to your dvd player. HTH

[johnmann]

Ok, I have insmod soundcore listed first in /etc/rc.d/rc.modules ;

insmod soundcore
insmod emu10k1
insmod apm

Sound works fine.Puter shuts down.

Now I have directories;

/cdrecorder
/cdrom
/dvd
/floppy

None of which are symbolically linked.

Here's an error message;

Could not mount device.
The reported error was:

[mntent]: warning: no final newline at the end of /etc/fstab
mount: mount point /media/cdrom. does not exist

Get this error while attempting to access my dvd, floppy , cdrecorder

My entries in /etc/fstab;

/dev/cdrecorder. * */media/cdrecorder. * *auto * * *ro,noauto,user,exec * *0 * * * 0

/dev/dvd. * /media/dvd. * *auto * * ro,noauto,user,exec * *0 * * *0

/dev/cdrom. * /media/cdrom. * *auto * *ro,noauto,user,exec * *0 * * 0

/dev/fd0. * * * /media/floppy. * * auto * * *noauto,user,sync * * 0 * * *0

As I posted before, these are lines copied from SuSE. What should I do next?

PS. Sorry to reply so slowly. Thanks guys for your help.

[ursidae]

In fstab change the mountpoints from /media/xxx to just /xxx, where xxx is cdrom/dvd/floppy. I don´t think this will solve your sound problem though.

Check if /dev/hdx (replace x with the correct letter for your dvd, I´m guessing hdc) is symlinked to /dev/cdrom. It should be I think. I don´t have a dvd so I don´t know if they work exactly like cdroms or not. I´m sure someone here knows.

I would get rid of the "cdrecorder" line. It´s a Suse thing.