I guess this is the first time that I've used my cdrom drive since installing Slackware and I can't get it to read any data cd's or when I put in a regular music cd, it plays in all the programs but I don't hear any sound. I've made sure that my CD volume is up on my system audio mixer. Any ideas?

I hope you're not insulted with this question,
but you DID mount the CD before trying to
access it?

As for the audio: the vast majority of Linux
CD-Player kind of apps does NOT support
digital audio transfer, that is, if your CD isn't
hooked up to the soundcard via analog cable
you won't hear anything.




Cheers,
Tink

No not at all. It wasn't that long ago that I was being offended when someone DID tell me to "go mount your cdrom". But I was offended because I thought someone was trying to be crude to me.

Yep, it is mounted and I can read AND listen off of audio cd's. I got XMMS to play the audio, after going to preferences and adjusting "CD" to retrieve digital or something or other. But I can't get other CD playing programs to play the audio yet.

However, I don't have the audio cable connecting the sound card to the cdrom. I've never had any problem with it before but I guess I'll try that next.

Does your device works fine when logged as root? If yes it could be a permission problem on your device.
Try editing your /etc/group file including yourself as normal user into the disk group.
This should fix the problem.
Ciao

nope, it happens even as root

Hmmmm ... can you please post the output of the
following here?

dmesg
cat /etc/fstab

and also what you get when you
mount /mnt/cdrom
on a command line?



Cheers,
Tink