[gentoo-user] Re: udev: lost dvd

2005-11-20 Thread James
Neil Bothwick neil at digimed.co.uk writes: Do the (2) layer NEC devices, such as the NEC ND-3540A work on linux? It works, whether it works in DL mode I have no idea as I haven't tried it. DL discs are so expensive. Is there anything special about the way DL discs are written, or does

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev: lost dvd

2005-11-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 18 Nov 2005 00:00:38 + (UTC), James wrote: Any recommendations on a DVDrw that has full linux support? They are standard ATAPI devices, so all should work. I am happy with my two NEC units. I used to use Pioneer but had three fail, one a couple of days after buying it and another a

[gentoo-user] Re: udev: lost dvd

2005-11-18 Thread James
Neil Bothwick neil at digimed.co.uk writes: Any recommendations on a DVDrw that has full linux support? They are standard ATAPI devices, so all should work. I am happy with my two NEC units. Do the (2) layer NEC devices, such as the NEC ND-3540A work on linux?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev: lost dvd

2005-11-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 18 Nov 2005 16:19:58 + (UTC), James wrote: Do the (2) layer NEC devices, such as the NEC ND-3540A work on linux? It works, whether it works in DL mode I have no idea as I haven't tried it. DL discs are so expensive. Is there anything special about the way DL discs are written, or

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev: lost dvd

2005-11-18 Thread Holly Bostick
Neil Bothwick schreef: On Fri, 18 Nov 2005 16:19:58 + (UTC), James wrote: Do the (2) layer NEC devices, such as the NEC ND-3540A work on linux? It works, whether it works in DL mode I have no idea as I haven't tried it. DL discs are so expensive. Is there anything special about

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev: lost dvd

2005-11-18 Thread abhay
On Friday 18 Nov 2005 11:39 pm, Holly Bostick wrote: I have not investigated whether the common burning tools are capable of doing whatever needs to be done, and in fact, I don't know precisely what needs to be done different (if anything does), and I would like to know the answer to your

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev: lost dvd

2005-11-18 Thread Nick Rout
On Thu, 17 Nov 2005 22:54:04 + (UTC) James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, it depends upon what logger you have mergedI use syslog-ng, configured so that my kernel and other logs go to /var/log/messages. Your messages may go somewhere else... vixie-cron if you are using

[gentoo-user] Re: udev: lost dvd

2005-11-17 Thread James
Richard Fish bigfish at asmallpond.org writes: Does /dev/hdc exist? If so, what are the permissions there? What about /dev/cdrom? Initially: brw-rw 1 cdrom 22, 0 Nov 17 16:41 /dev/hdc so I change it to 777 brwxrwxrwx 1 cdrom 22, 0 Nov 17 16:41 /dev/hdc but that did not fix it. ls -alg

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev: lost dvd

2005-11-17 Thread Richard Fish
On 11/17/05, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Richard Fish bigfish at asmallpond.org writes: Does /dev/hdc exist? If so, what are the permissions there? What about /dev/cdrom? Initially: brw-rw 1 cdrom 22, 0 Nov 17 16:41 /dev/hdc so I change it to 777 brwxrwxrwx 1 cdrom 22, 0 Nov

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev: lost dvd

2005-11-17 Thread Richard Fish
On 11/17/05, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: KERNEL==hdc, NAME=%k, GROUP=cdrom, ACTION==add, SYMLINK+=_dvd%e, IMPORT=/sbin/cdrom_id --export $tempnode Ok, bad form to reply to myself, but the above should say: SYMLINK+=dvd%e -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: udev: lost dvd

2005-11-17 Thread James
Richard Fish bigfish at asmallpond.org writes: Rather than changing the permissions, a better plan is to add any users that should be able to access cdrom/dvd devices to the cdrom group. In /etc/group it has been like this for some time: cdrom::19:root,james video::27:root,james What

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev: lost dvd

2005-11-17 Thread Richard Fish
On 11/17/05, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Richard Fish bigfish at asmallpond.org writes: 1. Try upgrading to a more recent version of udev. The current ~x86 version is 073. Tried this first, (added ~x86 to packages.keywords and emerged udev) Did not work. This look reasonable so I'll

[gentoo-user] Re: udev: lost dvd

2005-11-17 Thread James
James wireless at tampabay.rr.com writes: 2. Write a custom rule for your device, and add it to /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules. Something like this should do the trick: OK, this file does not exist, only: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root54 Sep 14 10:38 30-svgalib.rules -rw-r--r-- 1 root

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev: lost dvd

2005-11-17 Thread Richard Fish
On 11/17/05, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James wireless at tampabay.rr.com writes: I tried it with this line a 2 lines in the file /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules and as a single line. It should definitely be a single line. And you will want to either reboot or run udevstart afterwards.

[gentoo-user] Re: udev: lost dvd

2005-11-17 Thread James
Richard Fish bigfish at asmallpond.org writes: Ok, I would also suggest filing a bug report against udev on bugs.gentoo.org, with the model of your DVD drive, and the output of the cdrom_id Ok I'll file the bug report. Any recommendations on a DVDrw that has full linux support? How do I

[gentoo-user] Re: udev: lost dvd

2005-11-17 Thread James
Richard Fish bigfish at asmallpond.org writes: It should definitely be a single line. And you will want to either reboot or run udevstart afterwards. After this, does /dev/dvd exist? (ls -l /dev/dvd). lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Nov 17 19:01 /dev/dvd - hdc The system loggers available in

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev: lost dvd

2005-11-17 Thread Richard Fish
On 11/17/05, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Nov 17 19:01 /dev/dvd - hdc Ok, so everything is fine...but you say vlc and kaffeine still don't work? Hold on...googling... Um, the Samsung SC-152G is a CD-ROM drive, not a DVD drive. So udev and cdrom_id are doing the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev: lost dvd

2005-11-17 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 18 November 2005 02:00, James wrote: Richard Fish bigfish at asmallpond.org writes: Ok, I would also suggest filing a bug report against udev on bugs.gentoo.org, with the model of your DVD drive, and the output of the cdrom_id Ok I'll file the bug report. Any recommendations on a