Iv'e been trying to play my cdrom, Can't seem to get it working, I tried the following and can't seem to get it right, need help.

root@fvs:~# chmod 644 /dev/hdc
root@fvs:~# mount /dev/cdrom
mount: block device /dev/cdrom is write-protected, mounting read-only
mount: you must specify the filesystem type
root@fvs:~# pico /etc/fstab
root@fvs:~# chmod 644 /dev/cdrom
root@fvs:~# mount /dev/cdrom
mount: block device /dev/cdrom is write-protected, mounting read-only
mount: you must specify the filesystem type
root@fvs:~
What do I do for filesystem type?

It appears you are trying to mount an audio CD. This is not possible because an audio CD does not contain a filesystem. Just start your CD player applications. Depending on which application you will need to select the digital playback mode unless you have an audio cable connected to the sound card.

Can't get sound after cd starts? I do have audio cable on sound card. I have sound on desktop and on realplayer in browser.I can't get any DVD after xine launches either? Where to look?
Do I need /dev/dvd in my fstab?

/dev/hdb2 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hdb1 / reiserfs defaults 1 1
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,users,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,users,ro 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0

Is this right?

What application are you using to play audio CDs?
Did you check the mixer to see if the CD audio level is adjusted correctly.

Players do not use the fstab but need to be configured with the correct device id.

KsCd for cd and for dvd xine,
What device id is needed?
sorannos@fvs:/dev$ ls -l /dev/cdrom
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 2006-11-08 06:32 /dev/cdrom -> /dev/hdc
How's this?

Edit,
I tried "Amarok" and it played the music CD, Now I need to get DVD player to play my dvd's, I have xine installed, it launches, but did'nt play, I have an error message
"There's no input plugin avaiable to handle /dvd:/"

In order to play DVD movies, you will need additional libraries for this to occur. Typically, I have installed three: libdvdcss, libdvdread, and libdvdnav, in order to play DVD movies in Linux. I don't know if you need all three, but after installation I am able to watch DVD movies w/o any problems. If you search Google you should be able to find these libraries.

in this line of your fstab :

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

the third parameter says "auto". This specifies the filesystem. So...

really isn't true. ISO9660, Joliet (unicode FS to enable filenames to have unicode chars) by MS.

whenever you attempt to mount directly from /dev, it is from my experience that you must specify the filesystem. This is why it gave you this error:

"you must specify the filesystem type"

So, do a "man" on mount. You will see some options. Look into the "-t" switch. It will help.

Obviously it the device is not mounting correctly, "device id" is basically "/dev/***" in your case fstab set it to "/dev/hdc". goto /mnt/ and type "mount cdrom". this command "will look directly in fstab". Try that.

this is different than what you think. when you have "sound on your desktop" and on "realplayer" The player is reading directly from your system disk and not a cd rom, so of course you would have sound. What michaelk means is make sure that you have a cable running directly from your dvd/cdrom drive to your sound card.

Hopefully this helps.

king,
That was the cable I'm talking about, from my card to motherboard,I have that cable installed and it works, I have dual drives hda, hdb, hda has fedora core 5 and everything works great, this is just another distro on hdb or slave drive that I'm trying to learn Slackware.

swampdog2002,
I do have libdvdcss, libdvdread, libdvdread installed,

Well, that would be a different cable then. The cable I am talking about is going from the cdrom device (optical drive) to the sound card.

Sorry, I do have that attached. Optical drive to sound card.