cd player/burner

[Philski]

i am very new to Linux so bare with me.

I have installed mandrake 8.2 on my PC but I can't get the Gnome CD Player to play a CD. It opens the program and starts to play track 1 but after about 1 second just stops.

Also if I try to open the contents of a CD I just get a message in Nautilis saying "could not display contents of CD rom"

One more thing whats a good program to use for CD Burning
Any Ideas

Thanks guys

[i_like_peanut_butter]

Is your regular CD-ROM mounted? It should be, I think Mandrake has automount on my by default but that'd be a good thing to check.

I use XCDroast. You can get it here (http://www.xcdroast.org/) .

It is just a front end to cdtools, a command line cd burning suite so you'll have to download both but it is has been good and reliable for me.

[dunbar]

FWIW, is the hard disk light also on full? Immediately after a fresh install of Mandrake, slocate will eat up CPU cycles for a few minutes. Or try XMMS, the winamp clone, it can play CDs as well. I once tried the Gnome player, it runs on top of noatun, noatun would lock up on me as well; solved that by using XMMS instead of gnome things.

[dunbar]

bump - is all well today?

[heimdall]

Sorry to say it may just be Mandrake 8.2. I have a cd-burner installed, the OS mounts and recognizes it, but as soon as the dive is accessed the entire system locks completely, refusing all input from keyboard or mouse, requiring a hard reset to even shutdown. Mandrake has not even responded to any questions about this behavior. I am ready to try another disto to see if that helps.