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[dougmack@xxxxxxxxxx (Doug McGarrett)]

Message-Id: <200012130138.eBD1cXv25964@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 20:39:24 -0500
From: Doug McGarrett <dougmack@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: cdrom problem



Today, someone wrote in about not being able to play CD's
from certain icons.  (I have not tried, as yet, to fix the 
problem with posting from Linux, so cannot quote exactly.)
Some 3 or so weeks ago, Ole Hansen was so kind as to tell
me how to play CD's. It worked perfectly.  So today I tried
to verify that I could still play CD's.  No way.  Not a 
whisper comes out of the machine.  I have done a ls-l on 
both the /dev/cdrom and the device it points to, and the 
/dev/sr0 is (now) 777.  I had it at 444 and it worked, but 
I figured set it for everything, maybe that will work.  No.

Then I tried to access the mixer.  No way.  Even from root,
when I check the mixer perms, I get 777, but I cannot access the
mixer.  I get a message that the access failed, and I should
go to root and make the perms (wording I forget, but I did,
since I had both on the same screen at the same time.)  I 
think I actually set up 777, but it didn't help.

 What do I do next?  Howcum the mixer is no longer working?
If I do ls -l mixer, I get  lrwxrwxrwx.  I don't know what the
initial "l" means, or if it matters.  Should I change it to
something else, and if so, what?  And why is it not what it was
when SuSE, with a small amount of help from me, and Ole, set it up?

[I have to run Windows 98 at work.  The damned thing has crashed 
4 times in the last 2 days.  (To be honest, I think the network
load is too much for the machine. Probably need at least 128 MB
ram and only have 48 MB.  I'm not talking about being a 
server, just being connected to the network.)]
 
I really want to get Linux to work 100%, but I'm sure having 
a tough time of it.  I suspect that everybody that has no Unix 
experience is in the same boat.}