From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 25 12:38:02 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AAD1E16A41F for ; Tue, 25 Oct 2005 12:38:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from ext-gw.lemis.com (ext-gw.lemis.com [150.101.14.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1067943D53 for ; Tue, 25 Oct 2005 12:38:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.135]) by ext-gw.lemis.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4FC4131D5E; Tue, 25 Oct 2005 22:08:00 +0930 (CST) Received: from eucla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.135]) by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4ACCF8463F; Tue, 25 Oct 2005 22:08:00 +0930 (CST) Received: by eucla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 33EA54D30F; Tue, 25 Oct 2005 15:37:59 +0300 (EEST) Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 15:37:59 +0300 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Linnea Forslund Message-ID: <20051025123759.GC764@eucla.lemis.com> References: <20051025121037.GA764@eucla.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: problems with cd/dvd-device X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 12:38:02 -0000 On Tuesday, 25 October 2005 at 14:19:04 +0200, Linnea Forslund wrote: > On 10/25/05, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> On Tuesday, 25 October 2005 at 14:04:25 +0200, Linnea Forslund wrote: >>> I know, I know. I ask a lot of questions right now, but it's just >>> because I've waited until it's very acute until I got myself to start >>> fixing these things. >>> >>> So, I can't seem to find my cd/dvd-device. What do I do? >> >> That depends on what you've already done. What did you do? > > Well, what "I" did originally I didn't do. Someone else did and I > feel a bit handicapped not knowing what's reallt been done and > not. Now I tried som commands in the newbie guide like these: > > supermoccine# mount /cdrom > cd9660: /dev/acd0: Invalid argument > supermoccine# /sbin/mount_cd9660 /dev/cd0a /cdrom > mount_cd9660: /dev/cd0a: No such file or directory > supermoccine# OK, that's part of what I wanted to know. Now what version of FreeBSD are you running? What does this say? # dmesg | grep cd0 > And I tried inserting a cd with musicfiles and find it from xmms, > but there was nothing in /cdrom. No, there wouldn't be. /cdrom is a directory, not a CD. You can mount file systems on it, but you'll need other software to play it. I'll leave it to others to suggest their favourites. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers