hello again all, after i installed mandrake 9.0, and started running it, the sound for when you first log onto KDE played with no problem, but when i play a game, the sound is extremely jumpy and skips, like i only hear every 3rd second of sound. i tried opening up a console and doing a modprobe for my sound card (ac 97) but it did nothing, also, does anybody know how to work with the palm hotsink program that comes with mandrake 9.0? cause i can hotsink, but no information is getting transfered. and lastly, i put in the required lines into the /etc/fstab that someone told me to put in earlier so i can have access to my cd drive, but it didn't work. my login name is shaggy, and this is what i put:

/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
iso9660 shaggy,noauto,ro 0 0

if someone can help it would be appreciated


Shaggy

put this

/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom user,noauto,ro 0 0


make sure /dev/cdrom is right


ls -l /dev/cdrom


you may need /dev/hdc /dev/hdd or /dev/sr0

frankly i have no clue what your talking about. i'm a newbie, hence posting in the newbie section, please break it down to the newb level

login as root

put a cdrom disk in the cdrom drive and type this ...

mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom

if it works ( no errors) and you see files on the cdrom by typing this..

ls -l /mnt/cdrom

then put this line in your /etc/fstab file ...

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

i got it to work by fiddleing around with it, it turns out, it only doesn't give me permisison when i have a audio cd or no cd in it
i understand the no cd, but why the audio cd, i put in a cdr with some rpms that i burned from windows, and it showed up fine. also, fixed the pda problem, i just downloaded jpilot and that works perfectly, but can someone help me with the sound issue? it works fine with kde itself, but whenever i load a program that uses sound, it is very choppy. also, i have a great system with great specs, but i tried to play the 3d ping pong game, and it was slow and choppy, like my system couldn't handle it, which i know it can, i build and render 3d things in my spare time. is it a compatibility issue with my video card? i have a geforce 3 titanium 500. thanx in advance


Shaggy

you cannot mount audio cds as if the were data cds

they will play without mouting

the slow sound problem may be the driver your using for sound

look into using oss and see if it's better