devfs. It's a "known" problem with mandrake 8.1, at least it is around here. Everytime you reboot Mandrake automatically recreates the dev file system based on what devices are pluged in I belive. [Correct me if I'm wrong]. We were able to correct much of the wierdness by monkeying around with the config scripts in /etc. Hope this helps, Jonathan On Thu, 24 Jan 2002 08:03:53 -0600 Ben Stallings <Ben at Workscited.Net> wrote: > A big thankyou to Jay Kline for recommending OSS as a driver for my SiS 7018 > built-in sound. I can now play sound files... but while trying to get audio > CDs to play, I found a very strange problem. > > /dev/cdrom is a broken symbolic link to ../cdroms/cdrom0, which of course > doesn't exist. (/dev/cdrom0, cdrom1, etc. are valid links to > /dev/cdroms/cdrom0, etc., but if I tell CD Player to use one of them instead, > it crashes.) I suspect the OSS installer may have done this.... prior to > installing OSS, I was able to play CDs just fine -- I just wasn't able to > hear them! However, I don't seem to be able to delete the broken link in > order to replace it. rm doesn't give any sort of error message, but it > doesn't delete the link. Is there some other way to delete a file other than > rm as root?? > > Then there's the other unexplained phenomenon in the Bermuda Triangle of my > /dev directory. If I want to hotsync my Handspring Visor, which uses a USB > cradle, I have to manually create /dev/ttyUSB0 and /dev/ttyUSB1 and give them > appropriate rw permissions. Then, after I use them, they disappear. > Sometimes immediately after I use them, sometimes not until I reboot, but > they're always gone by the time I reboot. What's going on there? > > Thanks again for all your help! --Ben (Mandrake 8.1) > > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list