From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7299 invoked from network); 23 Oct 2004 02:22:39 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (156.56.111.197) by lists.gentoo.org with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 23 Oct 2004 02:22:39 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([156.56.111.196] helo=parrot.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.41) id 1CLBYF-0003D7-4c for arch-gentoo-laptop@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 23 Oct 2004 02:22:39 +0000 Received: (qmail 28400 invoked by uid 89); 23 Oct 2004 02:22:38 +0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-laptop-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail Reply-To: gentoo-laptop@lists.gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-laptop@lists.gentoo.org Received: (qmail 26129 invoked from network); 23 Oct 2004 02:22:37 +0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=NFWR6QRHVAmlSRiSNxwaHo0Z1+3Ea99evps7XIuGGAa3msYlz5u1ZxkHvNaEV95Qc2Mo6yivQBeTgf4Mi2PbSwTUAMemc0qsroZkNCUlVVtPCUzbuwyk/xURa791RXO6xm8LITkGtU5KB+l1YuKp/AQK6P68IJEXm4xyJkw8160= Message-ID: Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 21:22:37 -0500 From: Michael Rutledge Reply-To: Michael Rutledge To: gentoo-laptop@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <20041022215117.6933914BF28@huva.hittite.isp.9tel.net> Subject: Re: [gentoo-laptop] Trying Gentoo linux on a new Asus M6 laptop X-Archives-Salt: 675d0099-00e0-4d6f-abee-281cde27c0a1 X-Archives-Hash: c7d57f016e370144c45fde60cdb305bc I'm not familiar with an ASUS laptop, but I know that a Sony VAIO has a firewire bus for the cdrom. You might want to check to see if your cdrom is firewire or IDE. When you use your gentoo boot CD, try lsmod and see if it is loading any special firewire drivers. This might can help you find out. -Michael On Sat, 23 Oct 2004 00:19:08 +0200, Jaroslav Sladek wrote: > On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 23:29:03 +0200, Henri Magnin wrote: > > Hi > > > > I recently purchased an Asus M6 (Centrino 1.6GHz), and did not want to bother > > anymore with the Windoze Family stuff. > > > > I wanted to install a modular Linux, which I could master and upgrade as I > > like. > > I earlier tried muliple other distributions (Aurox, Mandrake), but I did no > > longer expect to have any "straightforward" or "magic" install which was too > > tricky to update in future. > > > > I downloaded Gentoo 2004.2, started from stage3 (in a first trial), and > > compiled a 2.6.7 kernel. > > > > All was Ok, I even compiled X11 and kde and ati_drivers, to try employ at > > best my Radeon 9700 graphics card. > > > > My concern is about the CD-Rom on my own (very new) linux install. > > When booting from the install boot CD-Rom, I have a /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 device. > > > > But in the /dev of my hard-disk install, there is no such entry. So when I > > chroot to it, I can no more see the CD-Rom device. > > You mean when you chroot to your harddisk after booting from CD? > That's not a big deal, since gentoo uses devfs (or udev) which gets > initialized during boot up sequence and actually creates all needed > devices in /dev of your root filesystem. > > But if I misunderstood you and you're not seeing you CD rom device in > /dev of your harddisk AFTER you booted your new kernel, then you > probably forget something in kernel config. Most likely, you should > have option "Include IDE/ATAPI CDROM support" checked under Device > drivers->IDE/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support menu. > > Jaroslav Sladek > > > > -- > gentoo-laptop@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-laptop@gentoo.org mailing list