[SLUG] CD/DVD drive icon disappeared

[Richard Lung]

Thankyou Martin for remembering to ask about my PC's non-playing of CDs and 
DVDs. 
I tried re-tick and re-apply the boxes for CD and DVD drive - mounted and 
unmounted options (whatever the difference means), from Behavior panel's 
Device Icons tab, eventually reached by way of  start menu's System, then 
Configuration; KDE; LookNFeel; Behavior. 
But if there is a working solution, the right permutation, of ticked CD and 
DVD boxes, has eluded me. Ive left all options ticked.
(Re-starting the computer didnt help either.)

I did try a DVD that had worked in the past. The PC responds with a growl like 
a sick dog. (Instead of what? helicopter rotor start-up whine of CD drives.)

Ive copied a CD onto a blank CD. The program K3b  trumpeted when the copy was 
finished, so the speaker is functioning. 
I tried play the original and the copy with KsCD. 
Altho it went thru the motions, there was no sound. (Only the copy, when run, 
provoked a feedb error message.) 
KsCD described the music track as "unknown". 

Thanks again for trying to help.
From Richard Lung.


On Wednesday 25 Oct 2006 16:51, Martin Webb wrote:
> Richard Lung wrote:
> > Is there an untechnical way to get back the CD/DVD play and copy icon?
>
> Further to my posting yesterday, I spoke to a KDE developer at the Linux
> Expo at Olympia this a.m.
>
> He added to what I said, that, if the relevant CDROM box is already
> ticked, then untick it, and Apply your way out.
> Go back in, re-tick the box and Apply your way out again.
>
> I said, you'd probably need a reboot between each of those operations.
> He said no, but what does he know?  He's only a KDE developer.
>
> Martin