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Cd-rom and floppy won't work

Postby trickKnee on Sun Apr 12, 2009 12:26 am

I installed antiX on an old laptop- Dell Inspiron 7000. It's really nice, however, I just realized my cd-rom and floppy don't work. When I click on floppy in pcmanfm, I get error "unable to mount device". Any help would be appreciated. Could I be missing drivers?
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Re: Cd-rom and floppy won't work

Postby Hal343 on Tue May 19, 2009 2:48 am

Open a terminal and type
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lspci

and paste the output into a reply. We should be able to see what is wrong.
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Re: Cd-rom and floppy won't work

Postby ICE-M on Tue May 19, 2009 7:04 pm

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Re: Cd-rom and floppy won't work

Postby trickKnee on Thu May 21, 2009 2:18 am

Actually, I did get my floppy drive to work. I still don't think I can play an audio CD. Here is what I got from the terminal code:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge (rev 02)
00:04.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1220 (rev 02)
00:04.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1220 (rev 02)
00:07.0 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02)
00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01)
00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01)
00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 02)
00:08.0 Multimedia audio controller: ESS Technology ES1968 Maestro 2
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage LT Pro AGP-133 (rev dc)
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Re: Cd-rom and floppy won't work

Postby anticapitalista on Thu May 21, 2009 1:15 pm

for music cd, don't mount it from a file manager, simply open it from xmms
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Re: Cd-rom and floppy won't work

Postby trickKnee on Sun Jun 07, 2009 2:54 am

No luck with that, either. Any kind of cd that I put in the drive, it makes a whirring noise for about 15 seconds. Then the machine locks up. I have to power down to remove the cd.
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Re: Cd-rom and floppy won't work

Postby Hal343 on Sun Jun 07, 2009 7:04 am

Try enabling sound through aumix-it has worked for a couple of us.EDIT-sorry-I missed the cd-rom not working properly.
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