Thanks goes to Franklin (for your incredible patience with me), Kelly, & Matt!!! My DVD and CD-RW hardware devices are working okay. -I dumped all the stuff I changed or added in /dev, /media -reset fstab to "stock" settings, except changed cdrecorder to rw Will deal with later: -audioCD will not produce sound in DVD hardware device (assume same for dvd movie), even after trying all settings in gamix, kMix, and alsamixer. -dataCD takes 2 minutes to mount in DVD hardware device (Kelly said to try removing scsi emulation) -cannot change configuration in Gnome CD Player, and KsCD to point to anything but /dev/cdrom -Have not yet configured MPlayer for dvd movie viewing, or K3b for cd writing. Matt wrote:
(The audio CD browser in Konqueror does however show the content of Audio CDs as if they would be mounted, even as (virtual) MP3 files or OGG files. You can then copy them to another dirve easily.)
Matt, how do I do this in Konquerer? It makes no sense to input the address of /media/? as the audioCD is not mounted. It is already configured to preview audioCD's. Thanks all! Bernd