Hi all... been a while since I've been here, frikkin busy with life, but have whats probably a stupid question. I just canged distrobutions again (think I've been hrough 15 lol, love to keep learning them) to slackware 8.1, but cant listen to audio cds that worked fine in other distros.

Sorry in advance if this has been answered numerous times before, but I searched and coulnd't find anything..

I have my kernel compiled with scsi emulation for my burner, and my /etc/fstab looks like this:

/dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0

Data cds work fine, just not audio, both burned and origional copies. If I try using KsCD or the like, it tells me theres no audio cd in the drive. The drive isnt mounted, but if I do try to mount it, I get another error about wrong file system type. I just tried to mount it to see if it made a difference, even though it doesnt have to be mounted for audio cds...

I'm not really a newbie, but I just can figure this one out, probably something minor I just totally overlooked somewhere lol.

Any help or a point in the right direction would be wonderful.
Thanks!

try this as root
ln -s /dev/scd0 /dev/cdrom

It is probably because of the permissions, try to see if you can listen to them as root, if you can that´s the problem. I just can´t remember which group your user should be member of to have the access....

When I try ln -s /dev/scd0 /dev/cdrom it tells me ln: `/dev/cdrom': File exists


I cant listen to them as root either, and have looked over the permissions as well, and all seems to be in order. it's wierd, ive never encountered a little problem like this that didnt end up being answered by a simple search LOL

What an ass am I... I just had to change the cdrom device to /dev/scd0 DUH... That was the 1st thing I did, but apparently I didnt do it as root and it didnt save it that way. I knew it was something stupid...

thanks for the replies tho, much appriciated =)