akshunj

Maybe you've got the drive assigned to the wrong address in eroaster's preferences. Try typing this as root: cdrecord -scanbus That should return some useful info about where your burner is. Post it here if you like. Eroaster is looking for your drive on 0,0,0 and that may not be where it is... --Akshun J

What is the exact error message that "it" gives you. If you're booting into KDE and you don't have the sound daemon (artsd) going, you may not hear any sound events. I've got one of those on-board chips, and as I recall Alsa (sound drivers used by Mandrake) supports it. I believe Mandrake 9.1 autoloads the proper drivers and auto configures everything. If you want KDE sound events, you may want to go into KDE's control center and enable artsd. Your CD drive should "supermount" in Mandrake 9.1. Personally, I think supermount is sort of worthless, but lots of people swear by it. When you put your disk in the drive, Mandrake should automatically mount it (just like in Windows) and all you have to do is double-click on the disk icon on your KDE desktop. The contents will open in Konqueror. Without more specifics, this is all I can tell ya. Mandrake's website has a TON of documentation, though. And users have their own board, and they are pretty cool about answering newbie questions. www.mandrakeusers.org --Akshun J

I just compiled Mplayer from source also! Brave souls, we are. I have read that compiling Mplayer is a difficult process, and you should usually just install a precompiled binary for your distro. With that said, here's what I did... It appears that you did not compile in support for Windows codecs. At MPlayer HQ's download page, you'll find a link to additional codecs. Get them ALL (certainly the Win32's as this seems to be what you're after). Create a directory called /usr/local/lib/codecs and dump all the codecs in there that you downloaded. Get them out of the folders they came compressed in, and just put the naked codecs in that directory you just created. Then, when you do ./configure for MPlayer, use the following options: --with-codecslibdir /usr/local/lib/codecs and --with-win32codecs /usr/local/lib/codecs Actually, the above options are probably not exact. Use: ./configure --help to get the exact syntax. Then configure, make, and make install (or checkinstall is my preference for easy package management...) The finished product is quite nice. MPlayer can handle just about any video file format, and there's a neat plugin you can get for Mozilla (linked on MPlayer's website) to play imbedded video on webpages! And to think I paid $30 for that dang Crossover plugin... ;( Happy compiling!!! --Akshun J