[Gllug] Failed to open cd device cdroms/cdrom0

[Sean Burlington]

Chris Bell wrote:
> On Fri 04 Feb, Sean Burlington wrote:
>>
>>/mnt/cdrom does seem to have moved to /media/cdrom
>>
>>Is this due to a change in the filesystem standards ?
>>
> 
>    This is what appears to be happening, I have already had fun trying to
> get sound working, with conflicts between loaded default software for
> esound, arts, alsa, etc, plus existing cdrom access from the various
> players, additional decoder cards which may be faulty, etc,.
> 

but surely sound systems aren't affected by changes from /mnt to /media

I can't think why alsa and so on would be accessing the CD at all

playing an audio CD requires access directly to the device (I don't 
think you can even mount an audio CD as it doesn't have a filesystem)

-- 

Sean

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