Regards to many peoples in this forum, now I can use Mandrake 9.1 and any other distro in my computer without fearing the network menace
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...338#post310338
Thanks guys. I need a little more help with hardware. I am relatively good with Linux, but when it comes down to hardware, I suck at it.
I'm having these problems:
FIRST PROBLEM DVDROM AND CD-R
- I have a DVD Rom (LG) set as Master (supposedly) and a CD Burner set as slave (not sure either, my bios does no says anything and the jumpers from LG are weirdos, maybe both are slaves, or both are masters, I'm not sure. Well, both Win2k and Mandrake see them both anyway. The problem is, I cannot mount it properly. I went to
>> Configuration >> Mandrake Control Center >> Hardware >> Hardware list
There we can mount the CD/DVD Roms as it should be. I've tried all the ways I could and the best was:
DVD-Rom set as CDRom1
CD-R set as CDrom 2
That works(!), but I cannot play DVD-Roms with that. It retunrs an error "could not mount /mnt/dvd". Though, my DVD Rom works as master, or in another words, when I need to install a package, it opens the DVD-Rom and ask to put the CD... that's EXACTLY as I want it to be, but I also wanna read DVD's.
I've changed the DVD-Rom to DVDrom in
>> Configuration >> Mandrake Control Center >> Hardware >> Hardware list
But then I got a big problem... Besides not being able to play DVD's either, my CDburner turns to be as the defaul CD-Rom device... and as so, when I need to install a package, it opens the burner and worse, crashes the system instead of read the CD's...
So, what I need is help to:
1a - Set my DVD-Rom as primary CD-Rom and being able to play DVD's (able to install packages too)
1b - Set my CDBurner as CD rom 2 and that's it

Does not even need to burn anything, just don't stay in the way... I will keep burning thru win2k untill I feel more confortable with Linux
P.S: at my /mnt directory I have a lot of useless stuff...
cdrom
cdrom2
dvdrom
scd0
I've tried to much as you guys can see and not I've loads of useless devices there

SECOND PROBLEM - SOUND CARD
I have a Sound Blaster Audigy in my computer. All the 4 speakers works greatly, but in:
>> Configuration >> Mandrake Control Center >> Hardware >> Hardware list
I have an unknow device called:
EMU10K2 Audigy Game Port
So, seems like Mandrake is not configuring properly the game port from my sound card. Does anybody has any idea how to fix it so I can use my joysticks thru it?
Thanks a lot in advance and sorry for so many questions everyday. I'm not used to have problems with Linux and my computers, but this one is being harder then birth a child (not that I've done that, but I've been there with my wife and ain't easy..lol

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