Re: [Sheflug] Help - CDROM

["Ian Wright" <nospam [at] iw63.freeserve.co.uk>]

----- Original Message -----
>
>  You can use most IDE and SCSI CDR(W) drives with Linux these days,
> however they run using SCSI emulation, which might be what you're
> thinking of.
> Don't worry, it's all fairly straight forward.

Thanks all,

I now have both the original CD and the HP7200 RW running apparently OK (I
haven't actually tried writing a CD yet).

I now have another problem which is in getting the sound progs to work. All
the different sound apps I have tried tell me they can't work because there
is no /dev/dsp.
I am puzzled by this as I can see a file in the /dev directory called 'dsp'.
Thinking it may be corrupted I tried to do ./MAKEDEV /dev/dsp but that just
told me that it didn't know how to do that. Can anyone offer any suggestions
please?

Stephen:  Your comments about Mandrake running away doing its own thing may
well be based on sound facts but I think they do have one major thing in
their favour - they are rapidly making Linux attractive to the masses and
usable by even the tyro user. Most of the systems I build are for people who
are totally illiterate where computers are concerned and therefore they are
almost all windoze based systems. However, the way Mandrake have simplified
the installation process and prettied up the system along with KDE2, I can
see that I could probably start to interest other people in it. Both the
kids and housewives will be attracted by the proliferation of penguins and
snazzy icons and, after all, these are going to be the users of the future.
It may be that some apps have problems with the mandrake distro - or is that
with relics of the RedHat system it was apparently based on - but I'm not
sure that is Mandrake's problem. Wherever software is 'adapted' under an
uncontrolled GPL, distros are going to diverge in some ways - we've just had
a discussion on this re Debian versus the rest. Perhaps whats needed is a
Linux 'monopoly' to reduce the number of variants to one?? Alternatively,
the developers of apps could just bite the bullet and write their software
in such a way that it will work with all the distros available at the time
and then update it whenever new distros are released. Either way life
becomes tedious and awkward for someone. I don't really have any axe to
grind but I think you can have it one of two ways - either linux is
developed in such a way as to make it popular and usable by the 'general
public' or you can keep it as a mysterious, command line OS for the 'serious
user' (most of whom are already aware of it or are still absorbed with
struggling to understand the complexities of George V  ;o} )

Ian
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Ian W. Wright
Sheffield  UK
www.iw63.freeserve.co.uk


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