I have just installed an IDE CD burner which identifies itself as "CW099D ATAPI CD-R/RW" in my desktop (FC5) after having used it for two years in another machine strictly as a burner. In the desktop it does fine burning and reading data CD-RWs. I put a music CD in it and tried to run Gnome's CD player by right clicking on the desktop image. Gnome's CD player crashed. When I had it run anyway, it reported not finding any media in the drive. I have played the CD sucessfully in other players and on other computers running FC6. I hit the play button on the drive and got music on the sound card. Just prior to installing this drive I took out an ancient SCSI CD drive, which Gnome's CD Player sucessfully used. Gnome CD Player reports that it is trying to use the IDE drive, but I wonder if there is some configuration issue that did not get reset by the change. I installed grip. It complained that /dev/cdrom did not exist. I created it as an appropriate symlink, and grip ran just fine. [root@charlesc ~]# ll /dev/cdrom* /dev/hdd lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Nov 26 16:55 /dev/cdrom -> /dev/cdrom-hdd lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Nov 24 09:44 /dev/cdrom-hdd -> hdd brw------- 1 ccurley disk 22, 64 Nov 24 09:44 /dev/hdd (I probably ought to have looked to see if I can change grip's confiuration, but the symlink worked.) I then tried gnome-cd from the command line and from the Gnome menu; it ran fine. But trying to run it by right clicking on the desktop icon continues to fail. -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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