CD installs but will not play
 

I have installed Caldera Linus 2.4 on an intel 586 motherboard with a CD. The sound board works fine though the controls and the CD installs with OS fine. But you cannot use the CD from the Desktop or play a CD.

Does anyone know how to fix this link problem?

Insert a data cd to your cd drive, open a terminal and type
mount /mnt/cdrom
The CD content should be in /mnt/cdrom. To be able to remove the cd use
umount /mnt/cdrom

Test if it works (I've never used Caldera, so it may be done differently than I think it should).

Thank you for the reply.

mount /mnt/cdrom does not work.


Strangely, the CDROM does appear to be "reading" as the light comes on regularly and the player is moving forward in time but there is not sound.

The CD-rom icon on the desktop does not work, however.

It is a strange bug.

With headphones and the CD player you can hear a CD; however, it will not play through the system.

This is despite the fact that the link to the CD or the floppy on the desktop do not work nor does the "mount /mnt/cdrom" command at a terminal or an "init 1" command

The sound tests work fine.

i very much doubt it is a "bug" in the slightest. do you have an entry in /etc/fstab set up correctly ? does /mnt/cdrom exist? have you tried mounting it with the /dev/hdX entry directly?

No the mnt/cdrom does not exist, but auto-sh will load cds and the CD player plays, but only through the headphones.

How do I mount directly from the terminal with a

"/dev/hdX entry directly" ???

How can I check the /etc/fstab file?

No the mnt/cdrom does not exist, but auto-sh will load cds and the CD player plays, but only through the headphones.

How do I mount directly from the terminal with a

"/dev/hdX entry directly" ???

I have been able to get the CD to play. I simply rebooted after placing an autorun in the tray. I have tried that in the past and it did not work.

It is a quirky OS on my 586, probably due to a slow drive speed.

Thanks.

Do you know if your cdrom is primary master/primary slave etc? If you don't, enter your BIOS and see (first or second option in most BIOSes). In most systems, cdrom is secondary master (hdc). If that's true in your system, insert a data cd in your cd drive and run:
mkdir /mnt/cdrom <- to create /mnt/cdrom directory
mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom <- to mount cd

/etc/fstab is a normal text file. Look into it and see if there's your cdrom device mentioned (in my example: hdc). If not, you need to add an entry:
/dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom iso9660 defaults 0 0
(just a new line at the end of the file). Then
'mount /dev/hdc' should work (not only 'mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom').

Make sure that the volume on the sound mixer is turned up for the CD. This is a separate control from the CD player. I had exactly the same experience as you, the light on the CD drive would come on, the CD player display on the desktop would show which track was playing and how far along it was, but no sound. Turning up the volume on the sound mixer fixed everything.

Ron

I did look at BIOS earlier. It only offers A and C, not the CD.


Somehow I have fixed the problem. I enabled autoplay and I rebooted the system and all of a sudden it worked.


This was the only quirk I had with installation. I must recommend CALDERA! It was almost an uneventful installation of a complex system with a Lizard process that took a total of about 4 hours.

The modem is configuring perfectly, etc.

The CD glitch was somewhat disturbing, but I've seen worse with Windows ME.

:Pengy: :)