On Thu, 2004-11-04 at 21:52 -0500, BandiPat wrote:
Just curious, but have you tried disconnecting the IDE dvd drive and just leave nothing but the scsi devices connected?
I've had this problem (of hassling with resmgr) since 9.0 and before I got the DVD. You can even google up this sort of thing and see the problem played out on this list back then. On my work machine, I had a SCSI DVD and CD-RW and an IDE CD-ROM. Same sorts of problems. I worked through the resmgr config back then, but now I can't get it to work at all. The bottom line is that if the answer lies in moving cables around, I'm through with Linux. I'm tired of this sort of thing. I have to stomp all sorts of little problems like this with every release. I keep thinking that it will all be great with the next rev, but it's always the same story. I recently got a new laptop at work -- a top of the line Dell M60, which is nice -- but I got told by my new manager that I couldn't run Linux on it. The whole job sort of sucks for various reasons, but I'm trying to give it my best, so I bit the bullet, and just installed Windows on it. This is the first time I've "lived" in Windows for 6 or 7 years now. Of course, I've always had some Windows lying around for gaming and such, but I've been running a Linux desktop at home and work for that long. The ease of use and strong laptop support in Windows makes these sorts of problems all the more obvious and ridiculous. I mean, what's the point of an extra daemon that completely invalidates the use of perfectly good, old-fashioned device permissions? Why the extra layer on top of logindevperm? Note that I'm not saying Windows is perfect, though. In fact, I loved the fact that I had to hold up a conference call with my manager today while my laptop had to reboot after running the NetMeeting wizard for the first time. And that sort of thing drives me nuts as well. I just want it to work. dk