On Sat, 2002-11-30 at 23:09, Howard Coles Jr. wrote:
Somehow SuSE got confused and assigned my Samsung DVD to /dev/hdc which is correct, but then /dev/sr0 to the HP CD-Burner, and now I can't make heads or tails of how to get it back to where it belongs.
There is a reason that your DVD is on /dev/hdc and the Burner is on /dev/sr0. Simply put, the DVD drive is running on the normal IDE drivers, but in order for the CD Burner to function it has to be addressed as a SCSI device, so the ide-scsi module is being loaded and as the first 'SCSI' device it's being put on /dev/sr0.
Before that it was CUPS causing all manor of print problems, finally had to switch over to LPRng to fix that, before that it was sound, the "master" volume control only controls one output channel NOT both.
It's not SuSE's fault if they can't fully support every piece of hardware on the market.
Then there was the problem with the ATI video card, simple add OPTION "AGPMODE" "4" to XF86Config file to fix that. Then there was the 'can't get YOU to get an update to save my life. Found a tip on this list about setting passive mode to on for wget. Now, xmms is the only player that will play sound CD's howeit very softly, can't find the volume control to turn that up. May be that /dev/sg0 thing.
Have you tried KMix? Make sure the wave channel and cd audio are turned up.
And then there's the laptop. RedHat and Mandrake see the wireless card just fine, same with the battery levels and modem, but SuSE doesn't see a darn thing.
Neither Libranet or Lycos detect my Tekram SCSI card, SuSE does. Sometimes drivers aren't part of the stock kernel and get added in by the various distros ad hoc. Swap the card with someone for one that SuSE does see.
-- See Ya' Howard Coles Jr. John 3:16!
"The act of faith is the obedience of the understanding to God revealing, and the product of that is the obedience of the will to God commanding." Matthew Henry, on Romans 1:5
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Donald Grayson