Alright so I just started running slack 10.2 and for the most part everything is going fine but I have run into a problem when trying to play audio cd's in any other user but root. It tells me it can't recognize the format. I can mount data cd's so i don't think its a problem with my fstab which is set up for noauto,user,owner,ro.

Hi welcome to Slackware.

Lose the word owner on that line in your fstab, you are telling the drive that only the owner of the device can use it, and all users can use it, it might be confusing the issue.

If that works fine.

Also check that your user is in the group audio.

Samac

Yeah i tried that and its still the same it says it doesnt recognize the filesystem type.

I suspect /dev/cdrom or /dev/dvd are owned by disk or cdrom groups, not sure as I made some modifications due to udev usage.
a simple
ls -l should give you device nodes ownership. These are mines, if can help
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2006-03-24 22:31 /dev/dvd -> hdc
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 22, 0 2006-03-24 22:31 /dev/hdc
Ciao

I got this for my /etc/fstab (as per shilo's post "this is how I do it all)

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

Important for me was putting "users" there.

Also, I had to go to groups file in /etc and manually enter all people to the cdrom, audio group.

In addition I had to go used "vi" to edit my "sudo" file and confirm that this was there too:

%users ALL=/sbin/mount /cdrom
%users ALL=/sbin/umount /cdrom
%users mycomputername=/sbin/shutdown -h now
%users mycomputername: /usr/libexec/xfsm-shutdown-helper
%users mycomputername=NOPASSWD: /sbin/halt

Those lines allow all "users" to mount/unmount cdroms, halt/shutdown the pc in KDE and halt/shutdown the pc using XFCE window manager.