On 10/9/05, Wayne Witzke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I've just installed FreeBSD on my laptop (decided I wanted a more > developer-friendly computer). Aside from what appear to be the standard > newbie problems, every thing's gone remarkably well, except for this: > > I have a CD-RW/DVD-ROM drive on my laptop. As a CDROM it had been > working perfectly well since the initial install about a week and a half > ago. It read CDs and DVDs without incident, and did so for hours and > hours (which it was forced to do because I've been listening to music > pretty much non-stop since I installed the system). The burner did not > work, but after the grueling process of opening up the FreeBSD handbook > and actually reading how to make it possible to burn CDs, that started > working as well. That is, I recompiled the kernel with the atapicam > module, changed permissions and set up links in the devfs.conf file in > /etc, and set the suid on cdrecord and cdrdao. Worked like a charm. > Burned my first CD, and it was beautiful. Then I think I went home. > > Yesterday, while not burning any CDs at all, just listening to music > using kscd while I wrote perl script, my computer suddenly reboots. ...
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