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after trying to read my cdrom and cdburner from the newly created desktop icons (created via right click through KDE) I now get the error message on both drives "mount: no medium found" even though both drives used to work just fine. no system changes since the issue arose.

tried manually mounting/unmounting/remounting them, tried enabling/disabling supermount, tried letting harddrake set them, double checked the fstab.. (included here in latest revision) (note, cdrom2 is a cdrw)

/dev/hdc1 / ext3 defaults 1 1
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
/dev/hdc7 /home ext3 defaults 1 2
umask=0022,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,unhide,codepa /dev/hdb /mnt/cdrom auto ge=850
,noauto,ro,exec 0 0
umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noa /dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom2 auto uto,r
o,exec 0 0
dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0022,iocharset none /mnt/floppy supermount =is
o8859-1,sync,codepage=850 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hdc6 /usr ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/hdc5 swap swap defaults 0 0

would it be an option to delete their entries from the fstab and let harddrake "rediscover them"? since they worked fine on initial install?

the only thing that I know happened was that I created desktop icons to access the drives through via the KDE right click menu to create a link to a device... I think that was the point from which everything went miserable..

latest revised cut-n-pasted fstab

/dev/hdc1 / ext3 defaults 1 1
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
/dev/hdc7 /home ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/hdf1 /home/shares/drive1 vfat umask=0,defaults 0 0
/dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom2 auto umask=0022,user,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1,noauto,ro,exec 0 0
/dev/hdb /mnt/cdrom auto umask=0022,user,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1,noauto,ro,exec 0 0
none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0022,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hdc6 /usr ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/hdc5 swap swap defaults 0 0

my frame of reference- http://www.irfanview.com/

everything I've tried thus far all have some element that renders them largely useless

(showimg, kview, digikam, etc..)

basic functions I need would be

batch resizing, easy flipping through images and rotating (and saving the rotated image) easy renaming, flexible thumbnail views, slideshow.

I had the same issue..

did a fine and normal install of 9.2 on the exact machine..

but 10.0 Official spouted the same error.

after burning like 23 copies of disc 1 (assuming a bad burn- using different programs and OSs)

I tried swapping out the CDROM drive.

every single disc that gave me the error now worked fine.

(ok, well, like 4 of them.. I didn't try my entire new pile of coasters)

that drive worked(s) fine for everything else, including 9.2 and winXP installs.. but for some reason.. it didn't like 10.0-O

(i still have it as the second drive in the machine- works great for everything else)

is there any means to install *.deb files on a Mandrake system?

I see that there's a port of apt(-get) to mandrake, but if I'm reading the description correctly, its been refitted to work with rpm's.

Mandrake 10.0 Official:

clean install, (most)everything seems to work wonderfully ...

except for the extra thumb buttons on the intellimouse

which\(as best as I can tell), are mapped to send a right_alt-arrow key signal.

now the interesting part- holding down the right alt key and pressing an arrow key does not function as if the alt key were pressed! but using the left alt key does!!!

so- how can i change mdk/kde's default use of the right alt key

-and/or-

get the right alt key to work!!!