Guest anon Posted March 8, 2004 Report Share Posted March 8, 2004 Though I never had problems with it, many people did. In addition, 'magicdev' will replace supermount. Magicdev provides features suchas automatically launching a CD player when an audio CD is inserted into the drive. Luis Alves, one of the 'Mandrake Cookers," posts an early review (with plenty of screenshots) of the 10.0 Release Candidate which he installed on his IBM laptop: "The speed of the KDE 3.2 and the new kernel is awesome, compared with my Mandrake 9.2, you can feel it everywhere. Konqueror is cleaner and faster than ever. All the interface interaction is more satisfying using the same hardware." http://homepage.swissonline.ch/mdk10rc1_review/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghil Vertefeuille Posted March 8, 2004 Report Share Posted March 8, 2004 that's good news! :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mystified Posted March 8, 2004 Report Share Posted March 8, 2004 I never had probs with supermount either. It'll be interesting tho to see how this new magicdev works. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gnubie Posted March 8, 2004 Report Share Posted March 8, 2004 Hmm, I don't know what this supermount thing is. That's why I'm a Gnubie. :D Anyway, automatically playing audio cds and things like that is a feature windows has had for years. Good to see Linux getting it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted March 8, 2004 Report Share Posted March 8, 2004 you've never had to mount audio cd's, just had to start a cd-player program...i guess magicdev starts the cd player program for you? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghil Vertefeuille Posted March 8, 2004 Report Share Posted March 8, 2004 from what I understood, yes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest anon Posted March 8, 2004 Report Share Posted March 8, 2004 you've never had to mount audio cd's, just had to start a cd-player program... If that question is aimed at me, then no, i have never had to mount anything. Supermount has always worked for me. Even my USB stick. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghil Vertefeuille Posted March 8, 2004 Report Share Posted March 8, 2004 I just read the article...it's cool :P Â 10 does sound to me like a good release but I'm checking the screens and...maybe it,.s just me but it starts to get too XP for me :S Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mystified Posted March 8, 2004 Report Share Posted March 8, 2004 Well I installed magicdev in gentoo. Seems cool enough. The other stuff I already had installed. :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HJ Posted March 8, 2004 Report Share Posted March 8, 2004 Yea I just installled magicdev the other night, I love it! Supermount always gave me problems, but magicdev works great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted March 8, 2004 Report Share Posted March 8, 2004 (edited) Well I installed magicdev in gentoo. that's where I know it from :woops: ...I was gonna comment earlier but couldn't remember which distro I'd used it with :woops: :lol: Seemed ok to me but....  ...here's the debian/apt description magicdevA GNOME daemon for automatically mounting/playing CDs  Magicdev is a daemon that runs within the GNOME environment and detects when a CD is removed or inserted. Magicdev handles running autorun programs on the CD, updating the File Manager, and playing audio CDs. So, has ML integrated it w/ kde as well? I only used gnome w/ gentoo. I think suse uses it as well....may boot over later and see. [EDIT]couldn't wait......nope, not in suse.  Oh, and I've never had a problem with sm either. B) Edited March 8, 2004 by bvc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted March 9, 2004 Report Share Posted March 9, 2004 you've never had to mount audio cd's, just had to start a cd-player program... If that question is aimed at me, then no, i have never had to mount anything. Supermount has always worked for me. Even my USB stick. that questions not aimed at anybody :-P Â just a general observation that you can't mount a music cd, it's not possible :) (to mount something it has to have a filesystem, music cd's don't have a file system ;) ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mystified Posted March 9, 2004 Report Share Posted March 9, 2004 Well I installed magicdev in gentoo. that's where I know it from :woops: ...I was gonna comment earlier but couldn't remember which distro I'd used it with :woops: :lol: Seemed ok to me but....  ...here's the debian/apt description magicdevA GNOME daemon for automatically mounting/playing CDs  Magicdev is a daemon that runs within the GNOME environment and detects when a CD is removed or inserted. Magicdev handles running autorun programs on the CD, updating the File Manager, and playing audio CDs. So, has ML integrated it w/ kde as well? I only used gnome w/ gentoo. I think suse uses it as well....may boot over later and see. [EDIT]couldn't wait......nope, not in suse.  Oh, and I've never had a problem with sm either. B) In gentoo it doesn't automatically start a program for music cd's in KDE like it does in gnome. Maybe there's a way to enable that but I dunno. It does automatically mount the cds and (if enabled in the KDE menu) creates an icon on the desktop. So it's just a matter or right clicking on the icon to umount and eject. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jgutty Posted March 9, 2004 Report Share Posted March 9, 2004 The auto launch feature is something I always shut-off whan I was using windoze....I find it annoying. But mounting can be an issue w/ supermount Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghil Vertefeuille Posted March 9, 2004 Report Share Posted March 9, 2004 yes but it's better has a feature that we can disable than not having it at all :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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