Baseline- I'm lazy and not very smart: So my console output upon booting berated me about continuing to use sysfs. OK. So I removed it and built a new kernel (AMD 64).
Everything works but the DVD. Ok, so I need a udev rule to fix it? Googling has produced lots of antiquated info; nothing useful. Can somebody point me to a document, preferable one with an easy example to follow to get a variety of different DVD (reader writers) working again, Sata, ata, atapi, ide...... as this is now broken on all of my 2.6.34-r1 gentoo (systems) kernels I have...... I found this: http://reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html#example-cdrom but I do not have 'udevinfo' or 'udevtest' on the system. I did find this: /usr/portage/app-emulation/xen-tools/files/xen-tools-3.4.0-udevinfo.patch Seems like it out to be trivial to write a udev rule for these drives: Probing IDE interface ide0... hda: _NEC DVD_RW ND-3550A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive or ata3.00: ATAPI:scsi 2:0:0:0: CD-ROM PLEXTOR DVDR PX-755A 1.04 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 PLEXTOR DVDR PX-755A, 1.04, max UDMA/66 TIA, James
