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strange occurence on my inspiron 4150 since i installed mandriva spring.

 

when i insert a music cd and i want to play it with xmms, it does not recognize the cd.

when i look in the files browser and click on the cd, the contents are not displayed.

 

however, when i launch amarok, and click on play cd, it works.

 

any idea about this ?

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It's natural.

Audio CD's cannot be mounted normally (because audioCD's do not have any filesystem in it), but Amarok, as well as other KDE apps, use the KDE virtual filesystem, which can access unmountable stuff (just open konqueror and type in "audiocd:/").

xmms will also be able to see the audioCD, provided that you pass the correct /dev/hdx parameter in its configuration.

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It's natural.

Audio CD's cannot be mounted normally (because audioCD's do not have any filesystem in it), but Amarok, as well as other KDE apps, use the KDE virtual filesystem, which can access unmountable stuff (just open konqueror and type in "audiocd:/").

xmms will also be able to see the audioCD, provided that you pass the correct /dev/hdx parameter in its configuration.

 

what are the correct parameters to put in configuration ?

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Check your /etc/fstab for the /mnt/cdrom or similar. Normally CDROMs are /dev/hdxx so maybe /dev/hdc1 or other types similar to this. My new laptop is completely different.

 

But usually /dev/cdrom is a symlink to your correct CD device. Check with:

 

file /dev/cdrom

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