On Saturday 30 November 2002 03:56 pm, Jon Biddell wrote:
=> 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!!!
This is interesting - I have exactly the same setup and my Samsung DVD (/dev/hdc) and my HP CD-RW (/dev/hdd) work fine - and have straight out of the box. I'm running SuSE 8.0.
I've resisted the upgrade thus far as this is stable - the only thing I can't get is Gnome2.
Well, stay were you are. 8.1 so far has been one horrible trouble after another. I know I'll know linux when this is all done because I'm constantly having to fix some broken something. 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. 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. 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. 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. -- 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