The Linux eternal problem with reading CD/DVDs...

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

Paul Smith wrote:
> On 7/19/06, Mikkel L. Ellertson <mikkel at infinity-ltd.com> wrote:
>> You may want to check System --> Preferences --> Removable Drives
>> and Media Preferences - The storage and Multimedia tabs. You can
>> control what happens when you insert different types of removable
>> media. (If you are not running Gnome, then the menu chain will be
>> different.) Or you can run  gnome-volume-properties and get the same
>> thing. If auto-mounting is turned off there, then disks will not get
>> mounted. If the media itself is bad, you will also have problems
>> with auto-mounting.
> 
> Thanks, Mikkel, but I cannot find "System --> Preferences" in my K
> menu (I am using KDE).
> 
> Paul
> 
As I said, if you are not running Gnome, the menu chain will be
different. You could start up Gnome, or you can open up a terminal,
and run gnome-volume-properties and get the menu. Even though you
are running KDE, I believe the same program is used. I think it even
controls mounting for the CLI.

Mikkel
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