On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 10:13 -0500, Stevens wrote:
On Wednesday 14 March 2007 09:51, Clayton wrote:
Functionality IS lost when I have programs that cannot access the CD/DVD drive because they are looking for a /dev/cdrom or /dev/hdc mount point and wonderful Suse 10.2 won't provide it. Why not? Who knows.
I'm curious what applications or programs you are having issues with. I've had just one application (X-Plane) take issue with the way mount points are handled in SUSE, and that is because the installer is poorly (or badly?) programed. The workaround in this case it to sym link /mnt/dvd to /media/XPLANE and it works fine... not the most elegant solution, but the fault (in my opinion) is the X-Plane installer not HAL or anything related to how SUSE implements mount points.
Otherwise all applications I have that need to access the DVD writer or DVD reader I have in my PC work perfectly.
That's because you are working in a smaller universe.
No, it's because he is realistic!
Never assume that just because something works there that it works everywhere. Dvdshrink is one app that I can think of right now. It runs under wine and expects a mounted device, not a damned media label. It worked just fine under Suse 9.1 and it should work fine now but it doesn't.
Honestly, you don't try to insert VHS tapes in your CD recorder eh? So what makes OS's any different from that? Do you realise how many steps/versions there are between 9.1 and 10.2 (or whatever you decided to install)?
No, I do not think that I should create a simlink each and every time that I want to use one of these programs that require a device mount point. Yes, I know what the problem is and I would like for the design team to realize that it is a problem that needs to be fixed.
No, your choice of software needs to be fixed. Launch that thing called firefox and enter 'www.google.com', then do a search for a Linux program that does what you want it to do if your current choice of software doesn't work for you. Cheers, Magnus -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org