From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OuY4t-0000d4-6U for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 11 Sep 2010 21:57:43 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7B11DE096E; Sat, 11 Sep 2010 21:57:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org (mail.ukfsn.org [77.75.108.10]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 501BDE096E for ; Sat, 11 Sep 2010 21:57:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB277DEBEB for ; Sat, 11 Sep 2010 22:57:13 +0100 (BST) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org ([192.168.54.25]) by localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id P2i7JdcBFFhe for ; Sat, 11 Sep 2010 22:57:13 +0100 (BST) Received: from humphrey.ukfsn.org (unknown [78.32.181.186]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 887A9DEBE8 for ; Sat, 11 Sep 2010 22:57:13 +0100 (BST) From: Peter Humphrey Organization: at home To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] undetected DVD r/w device Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2010 22:57:12 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.35-gentoo-r5; KDE/4.5.1; x86_64; ; ) References: <1283763300.4c84ac640b3cc@imp.free.fr> <201009111924.16277.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> <201009112215.12989.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201009112215.12989.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201009112257.12652.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> X-Archives-Salt: 4ef574b1-dfbf-4292-8271-b463f0675ca1 X-Archives-Hash: 05c06afa0b869484d52fe5bb353eff06 On Saturday 11 September 2010 21:15:12 Alan McKinnon wrote: > Apparently, though unproven, at 20:24 on Saturday 11 September 2010, > Peter Humphrey did opine thus: > > On Saturday 11 September 2010 18:50:04 Mick wrote: > > > Deselect that which is deprecated and will be removed soon > > > > I hope it won't. I have one box whose drives the new drivers cannot > > detect - at least, nothing I've tried has worked so far. > > That's the beauty of Linux. When Linus decides he's had enough > keeping old stuff hanging around and rips it out, you just put it > right back in your own copies. Hmm. Not sure how I'd do that. I'd just assumed that I'd stick with a kernel version that worked. You know: mask anything later than version 99.94. And yes, I do remember that version, but in the 1.n.n series. -- Rgds Peter. Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23.