Re: [gentoo-user] no CD or DVD but "rules" seem correct-FIXED-or, not

[maxim wexler <blissfix@yahoo.com>]

--- Alan McKinnon <alan@linuxholdings.co.za> wrote:

> On Wednesday 09 May 2007, maxim wexler wrote:
> > lrwxrwxrwx  1 root    root         3 May  9 08:25
> > cdrom -> hdc
> > lrwxrwxrwx  1 root    root         3 May  9 08:25
> > cdrom1 -> hdd
> > lrwxrwxrwx  1 root    root         3 May  9 08:25
> cdrw
> > -> hdc
> >
> > appear since loading ide-generic.ko
> >
> > heathen@localhost ~ $ ls -l /dev/hdd
> > brw-rw---- 1 root cdrom 22, 64 May  9 08:25
> /dev/hdd
> 
> Cool. It seemed to me that you set ide-generic to
> "M" by mistake as 
> everything else is "*". You could either change the
> config and 
> recompile/install, or put ide-config 
> in /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6
> 
> Does the dvd device also work correctly now?

I thought so until now having restarted the box -- I
did put ide-generic into the autoload file before
shutdown yesterday -- tried to play a DVD with
gmplayer. Couldn't find the drive again. I just
assumed it had "forgotten" that in preferences->misc
the path to the drive had been changed from /dev/dvd
to /dev/cdrom1. Nope, that was still correct. Then I
did an ls -l under /dev and this appeared:

<...>
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root    root         3 May 10 02:23
cdrom2 -> hdc
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root    root         3 May 10 02:23
cdrom3 -> hdd
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root    root         3 May 10 02:23 cdrw2
-> hdc
<...>

Compare this to the above. Something is incrementing
the drive numbers!

Does this have something to do with having modularized
the driver? 

Guess my next stop is /usr/src/linux...

...to be cont'd

> 
> -- 
> Optimists say the glass is half full,
> Pessimists say the glass is half empty,
> Developers say wtf is the glass twice as big as it
> needs to be?
> 
> Alan McKinnon
> alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za
> +27 82, double three seven, one nine three five
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> 
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