I did something(dont know what) and slackware wont read my cd drives...i think i mightve edit something that redirected to some place it isnt...and well i dont know what or how...and so ya...how do I fix this?

AND CAN SOMEONE PLEASE PLEASE TELL ME HOW TO GET MY KEYBOARD TO WORK NORMALLY!!!

Ok, I think thats everything right now...As annoying as these little things are, this is a lot of fun.

If you really want someone to help you, you are going to have to be more specific about what is wrong, what you did, what you tried, what error messages you have seen ...

Do you really think you have provided any useful information here?

As much as I would like to help, I don't have time to play 20 questions.

Good luck with whatever you are having problems with.

i agree with franklin, as will many many members here at lq.org.

why the random mention about your keyboard--and why the CAPS?

again: whats wrong with your keyboard exactly? keys processed improperly? is it not being detected? are some keys not working right? WHAT!?

also, make your thread title informative, not 'oops', ok?

whats wrong with your cd drive? how many cd drives since you made the word plural? what models? is the bios detecting it? what have you done to test that its not working? whats the error messages?

(see? this is what franklin meant by the 20 question game.. not fun for anyone, but im bored so.)

good luck and remember this stuff for future posts please.

The caps were because its driving me crazy...its not working right,for example, for a ? i have to hold shift and press 6, and the / \ are by the tilta key, its sooo annoying.

Now for the cdrom problem, it says
mount: /dev/cdrom is not a valid block device
Please check that the disk is entered correctly.
I was looking around on how to fix my sound driver last night and I found these tips for slackware, and one effected the cdrom, i dont remember what it was, but i will look for it.

PS. Sorry about the title

i had a problem similar to that with my keyboard when i first tried ubuntu. the problem was the layout or country/regional settings for the keyboard.
both KDE and GNOME will have settings for your keyboard to fix it.
i noticed your from Canada, as am i. i set my keyboard to Canada, but it made some keys processed incorrectly. i then settled for setting it to United states and it worked. try that, or try changing the layout in the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file... ie us 104 keys or whatever is appropriate for your keyboard; experiment.

why did u do 'mount /dev/cdrom'? did you look in the /dev folder for a cdrom device file first? is it the correct device file?
your cdrom is usually sd0 or something like that (at least from my experience it is).. try that device file.

how is it connected to the motherboard?

Ok thanks I got the keyboard working properly...

Now as for the cdrom...
it would be hdc(secondary IDE, master), I tried to access my slackware cd by going into personal files and clicking on cdrom under devices...aside from that i don't know what you mean, but i'm going to go check my /dev folder...

try (as root)Then you should be able to cd /mnt/cdrom and it should be in there

This is what I got...
mount: block device /dev/hdc is write-protected, mounting read-only

That's normal. Unless you're trying to get a CDR or CDRW disk going.....
A CD is 'read only'

oops..........Stupid mouse......

Ok, so I messed around with fstab and put
/dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,ro 0 0

ps it worked thanks

No problem

DO WE need iso9660
for user to mount the cds change owner-->user