[gentoo-user] Re: DVD borked: SysFS removed

[James <wireless@tampabay.rr.com>]

walt <w41ter <at> gmail.com> writes:


>   < > ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support (DEPRECATED)  --->


OK, this fixed the dvd so that now it works...(thanks)


>        <*> Serial ATA and Parallel ATA drivers  --->

I had this already, just deleted the one above. Kernel
rebuilt, now it works with Kaffeine to play videos.




> $ls -l /dev/dvd
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2010-08-17 04:46 /dev/dvd -> sr0 

I get: ls: cannot access /dev/dvd: No such file or directory

> I didn't do anything to cause that.  udev took care of it without my help,
> and everything Just Worked.

> Well, not quite true.  I did change my /etc/fstab, but I'm now using disk
> labels in fstab instead of device names.  If you still use device names
> you'll need to change /dev/hd* to /dev/sd* in fstab when using the new
> disk drivers.

my current fstab looks like this:
/dev/cdrom  /mnt/cdrom  auto noauto,rw,user   0 0

Can you send me a snippet out of your fstab on setting up (2)
dvds on one system? Disk labels sound cool. Maybe a good doc
explaining these intricacies?


TIA,
James