On Saturday 30 November 2002 08:02 pm, Patrick wrote:
On Saturday 30 November 2002 04:39 pm, Howard Coles Jr. wrote:
On Saturday 30 November 2002 01:17 pm, Ali Naddaf wrote:
Howard,
If you feel more comfortable with Windows, please consider switching back. After all, variety is the spice of life and some prefer Windows to Linux and some Linux to Windows and neither is right nor wrong; these are personal preferences. If Linux is not working for you, the right thing for you is to go back and use Windows.
This mailing list is for asking technical questions and finding answers and has served well for many users. If you have particular technical questions about SuSE Linux, feel free to post them and the kind people on this list will try to help you as much as they can; I doubt anything can be achived by the type of complaints that you had in your mail; those questions belong somewhere else.
Have fun and enjoy life.
1. How do I straighten out the mess that has some how screwed up my ability to use the two cdroms I have (DVD and HP CD-RW)? I have a DVD player, and an HP CD burner. Both on the second channel of the ide controller. The DVD ROM is the master, which would make it /dev/hdc and the burner slave, /dev/hdd. the burner shows up as /dev/sr0 ( which I believe is ide-scsi channel 1) But, for some reason if I manually set me CD player to use /dev/sr0 and put a CD in the dvd ROM it plays!!! So I change the cdrecorder to point to sr1, now I can't burn CDs!!!
-------------------------------- Howard, At some you have gotten confused and frustrated. Whether it was SuSE or something else that caused it, is unknown. I know you have read many times the solutions to getting CD drives working on this list and I fee sure you have probably fixed some of your own a time or two. I just believe you have let frustration overtake your memory which keeps you from fixing your bug.
As your DVD & CDROM are the same drive, then your links must point to the same device, sr0! The CDRW will link to sr1 then to give you your 3 drive setup and allow you to burn again. So, you should have links /dev/cdrom pointing to /dev/sr0 & /dev/dvd pointing to /dev/sr0 & then, /dev/cdrecorder pointing to /dev/sr1, ok? Be sure also that you have directories /media/dvd & /media/cdrom & /media/cdrecorder. Be certain that you have the proper entries in /etc/fstab as well. Of course, you need to be sure in your lilo that you have the hdc=ide-scsi and hdd=ide-scsi, as burning still needs to have the IDE drives emulate scsi to operate correctly. Be sure also in your /etc/sysconfig/kernel you have the ide-scsi module loading as well.
I'll have to check all this again. Did it once, but I was tired maybe I missed something. And your right, the frustration is getting a little more than I want to deal with. I still cannot figure out what caused CUPS to flake out so bad after the upgrade to 8.1, and even on a fresh install of 8.1 CUPS really went wacko. I need the DVD drive pointed to an hdc device because I have to have dma=on for some reason when I play a dvd movie without it I get all manor of pauses. Is it possible to have the DVD/cdrom pointed to /dev/hdc and the Burner to /dev/sr1? or will that cause confusion?
For your audio stuff, you just need to be sure the permissions on /dev/sg0 and /dev/sg1 are set correctly for the user you want to have access to them. Both sg0 & sg1 on my system has me the user and disk group with RW privileges for both user and group. The sgX devices are used for the audio slave in Konqueror for ripping MP3 & OGG files easily.
Well, that explains that. I'll check that now. Thanks. -- 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
On Sat, 2002-11-30 at 23:19, Howard Coles Jr. wrote:
Howard,
If you feel more comfortable with Windows, please consider switching back. After all, variety is the spice of life and some prefer Windows to Linux and some Linux to Windows and neither is right nor wrong; these are personal preferences. If Linux is not working for you, the right thing for you is to go back and use Windows.
This mailing list is for asking technical questions and finding answers and has served well for many users. If you have particular technical questions about SuSE Linux, feel free to post them and the kind people on this list will try to help you as much as they can; I doubt anything can be achived by the type of complaints that you had in your mail; those questions belong somewhere else.
Have fun and enjoy life.
1. How do I straighten out the mess that has some how screwed up my ability to use the two cdroms I have (DVD and HP CD-RW)? I have a DVD player, and an HP CD burner. Both on the second channel of the ide controller. The DVD ROM is the master, which would make it /dev/hdc and the burner slave, /dev/hdd. the burner shows up as /dev/sr0 ( which I believe is ide-scsi channel 1) But, for some reason if I manually set me CD player to use /dev/sr0 and put a CD in the dvd ROM it plays!!! So I change the cdrecorder to point to sr1, now I can't burn CDs!!!
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I'll have to check all this again. Did it once, but I was tired maybe I missed something. And your right, the frustration is getting a little more than I want to deal with. I still cannot figure out what caused CUPS to flake out so bad after the upgrade to 8.1, and even on a fresh install of 8.1 CUPS really went wacko. I need the DVD drive pointed to an hdc device because I have to have dma=on for some reason when I play a dvd movie without it I get all manor of pauses. Is it possible to have the DVD/cdrom pointed to /dev/hdc and the Burner to /dev/sr1? or will that cause confusion?
Well, that explains that. I'll check that now. Thanks.
Ok from the top on the devices /dev/hdc (DVD ROM) and /dev/sr0 (CDR), I am half asleep from a 13 hour work day, so please bare with the typos, etc.. /dev/hdc and /dev/dvd should go to the DVD ROM /dev/sr0 and /dev/cdrecorder should go to the CDR If I remember correctly, DVD needs the audio cable connected to the sound card to produce the audio out for DVD movies. Most current Sound Cards only have one active connection from CDROM ~> Sound Card which means CD's will only play from the DVD ROM. I spent a week griping about SuSE 7.3 and CD's not playing from my one drive when I finally realized its the cable that made the difference. Swapped over the audio cable and everything ran smooth. Check that cable and audio problems should disappear. CDPlayer should point to /dev/hdc or /dev/dvd for that to work. If I some how blanked out and missed something yell at me... quietly! RK Davies Textbox Networks -- ********************************************************************** This post is encrypted in the "english language method", any attempt to decipher meaning from these symbols is a violation of the DMCA. This includes, but is not limited to: interpreting the symbols through use of biological, visual decryption devices, translating the symbols into another language encryption scheme, and digital processing the symbols into a form conducive to oral interpretation. Thank you for your time. **********************************************************************
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