Red Hat® Linux® 7 Unleashed

Playing Audio CDs

Playing audio CD-ROMs or music CDs requires a properly configured sound card, along with a Linux CD-ROM device pointing to your computer's CD drive. The default entry in your Red Hat Linux filesystem table, /etc/fstab, will show an entry that looks like this:

/dev/cdrom              /mnt/cdrom              iso9660 noauto,owner,ro 0 0

This entry shows (from left to right) that the device /dev/cdrom (which will be a symbolic link to the proper device, such as /dev/hdc for an ATAPI IDE CD-ROM drive), will be mounted under the /mnt/cdrom directory. The parts of the table entry designate the default filesystem to use, along with mounting and filesystem-checking options. You may also need to set correct permissions on the device (such as 0600) to allow users ...