CDROM is locked and comp. freezes

[HazyBone]

Well, I didnt know what catagory to put this in so I put it here. I just recently switched from Redhat to Mandrake 9, and I have 2 questions about Mandrake. First my CD-rom drive and my Floppy drive have like little locks on them and they wont let me access them when I am logged in as root. Any I ideas how to get it so I can access them? And my secound question...I noticed that every time I try to go and play Tux Racer my comp. freezes and the lil num lock caps lock buttons on my keyboard flash. This isnt that big of a deal, I would just like to find out why. And I thought this was because my Voodoo 4500 wasnt setup right for X but it looks like it is...any ideas?
~Thanks~

[fancypiper]

Your /etc/fstab configures your filesystem. Check that file and compare to mine:/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 user,owner,exec,dev,suid,ro,noauto 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto user,owner,exec,dev,suid,rw,noauto 0 0
See:

man fstab
info fstab

for more options you can use.

You can kill crashed games but I don't know what causes them to crash. I have them crash in Windows and Linux .

I switch to a vt (control-alt-F3 for exmple) and as login as root command killall x and then startx again.

In Windows, all you can do is re-boot or power down/up.

[HazyBone]

See, its nots a big deal to me why Tux Racer freezes, but I want to find out if its a setup problem, or what. EVERY time I try to run it, it freezes.

[fancypiper]

Does dmesg give hints?

There may be some error messages that will give you hints in your log files, possibly in /var/log/<some-log-filename> or a subdirectory of that.

[HazyBone]

Ok, I checked out /etc/fstab/ and it said:
none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/hdc,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
and I removed the none in front of them. Saved, and then roobooted, and now when I try to access either my cdrom or floppy disk drive it says:
mount: mount point supermount does not exist
should I change something in the lines following the Devices?

[mdwatts]

I had the num/caps lock flashing lights when trying to install one of the United Linux beta versions.

I have to specify 'noapic' during the installation and then add 'noapic' to my bootloader config.

The locked devices sound familiar though I don't use Mandrake. See if they have anything on their support/bug site for this.

[askrieger]

Mandrake uses a routine called Supermount that senses when you've inserted a disk into a removable media drive. If you put a disk into your drive, then open the /mnt directory in the tree view of Konqueror, the lock symbol will be gone.

Put the "none" notations back in your fstab.