Re: Solved: Re: Can't play CD's on SuSE 9.0

From: felmon (noone_at_nowhere.edu)
Date: 06/28/04

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    Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 22:39:21 -0400

    On Sun, 27 Jun 2004 19:10:47 +0000, panther wrote:

    > Actually, the problem is that my cdrom driver is scsi, so it is named
    > /dev/sr0. kscd was configured to refer to /dev/cdrom, which was a link
    > to /dev/hdc, which did I have no idea what.
    >
    > I changed the link /dev/cdrom to point to /dev/sr0, and now kscd works.
    > Hooray!

    it's obvious now; wish it had occurred to me to recommend that. I didn't
    think scsi although one of my systems is scsi-based.

    anyway, yes, hooray!

    >
    > xmcd is still not working. There is a config.sh that you run to
    > configure xmcd that wants a lot more information about the cdrom drive
    > than I have. But since kscd is working, I don't need xmcd.
    >

    xmcd does ask a heap of questions. I set it up one machine and kind of
    like it though it's a bit gaudy (or 'feature-rich'). now that you know the
    mount-point for your cdrom, it shouldn't be hard to get xmcd running.

    > Thanks for your help, anyway.

    you are very generous! I didn't help.

    Felmon

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