-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 04 January 2003 17:47, Carlos E. R. wrote:
You could if you like, or you could leave it. Let me see... I'd sugest you: Decided not to fight it any more added the hdc=ide-scsi to the kernel line in grub
1) Change the "cdrecorder" link to "sr1", as I understand that the writer is the second device.
changed the cdrecorder link to sr1
2) You may leave the "cdrom" and "cdrom1" links. The first one is the writer unit, the second one is the dvd by another name. Try them, they should work.
left the cdrom and cdrom1 links alone.
3) Change the "dvd" link to "sr0". Alternatively, convince the kernel not to use emulation for that unit... but, for the moment, I don't know how O:-) - and anyway, it might be easier not to.
changed the dvd link to sr0 also changed the desktop icon for dvd to point to /dev/dvd, and the cd-r icon to point to /dev/cdrecorder.
Now, how do you change the links? Well... I suppose konkeror should be able to do it, but I don't like to start an X session as root. Anyway, I normally use gnome, and as I tried konqeror right now to see if it could edit links, it crashed.
So... you might use mc on a terminal, as I mentioned the other day, or the comand line: use whichever makes you feel more confortable. The last would be like this (as root):
cd /dev rm dvd (delete file or link) ln -s sr0 dvd (create symbolic link)
rm cdrecorder ln -s sr1 cdrecorder
did the above
Now when we create the links is dvd and cdrom linked to the dvd hdc, and cdrecorder linked only to sr0?
Er... I got a bit lost here :-)
The links are just a trick to access the real devices (sr0, hdc or whatever) with names that are meaningfull to us. In the rest of the system everything else refers to "/dev/cdrom" instead of the real device where it is; this way, if we decide to use it as hdc or as sr0 we need only to change the link and it will work everywere.
Before we do any linking how do we get hdc to be just ide, and not scsi emulated. (I have no need to do cd to cd-rw copying at this time.
True... but if it works, don't touch it O:-)
I mean, the kernel seems to want it that way, and I feel your system was configured that way, except that it got it a bit bad. You'd end with yast not working, because it remembers that before the dvd was sr0... (it can be corrected, of course).
And anyway, the real reason is, I don't know how to convince your kernel O:-) it shouldn't be doing it that way (by the parameters you pass it).
Audio cable is hooked up.
I hope the above is not too confusing, I feel a bit sleepy today :-)
I am getting tired and yes I have gotten somewhat confused, but things are also a little clearer, I made comments in the middle of things along with all the questions I could think of. Hope I do not confuse you too much.
The thing is that you need, as user, access to the cdrom device in order to play a music CD. Normally the device will have read/write permission only for root (or not, depending on an automatism I don't fully understand). If you can't play a CD on the dvd, after doing the above corrections, check the permissions on /dev/sr0
tried to play audio cd using kscd nothing happened got this in console: ralph@linux:~> kscd CDTEXT INFO: use GET_FEATURY_LIST(0x46)... CDTEXT ERROR: GET_FEATURY_LIST(0x46) not implemented or broken. ret = -1! CDTEXT INFO: GET_FEATURY_LIST(0x46) ignored. It's OK, becose many CDROMS don't implement this featury CDTEXT INFO: try to read, how long CDTEXT is? CDTEXT ERROR: READ_TOC(0x43) with format code 0x05 not implemented or broken. ret = -1! CDTEXT INFO: free_cdtext_info() called ralph@linux:~> permissions for sr0, and sr1 is set to -rw------- the user is set to my user name (ralph) and the group is set to disk. Hope this helps a little bit more. - -- Yours, Ralph. It said Use Windows XP or better, so I installed SuSE-Linux 8.1 Register Linux User 168814 ICQ #49993234 AIM ralphdewitt jabber.org ralphdewitt GPG Public Key available at http://www.keyserver.net Key id = 3097 3BC4 Kernel version 2.4.19-4GB Current Linux uptime: 22 days 3 hours minutes. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+F6Nommsm1DCXO8QRApzpAJ9TRaeRDu0T0dMjXNkSU0THXLmxrACfZKXO P4k1xauGJYhhvCpzgZkfclA= =VAe2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----