Aubin Paul wrote:
config.py.patch enables auto-detection of CD and DVD drives under the FreeBSD device naming scheme. More work will be required to use them though.
Can you explain that? Is that end user work? If so, what would be needed so we can add it to the Wiki documentation?
I'm not sure what you mean by "end user work." The issue this patch addresses is device naming: ATA optical drives on FreeBSD are named "/dev/cdX", SCSI ones "/dev/acdX", where X is a number. "cd" and "acd" are the names of the drivers that handle the respective devices.
The "c" partition of a device is slice-spanning, and is usually the one one mounts. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-steps.html has more on this.
For example my DVD drive is /dev/acd0. For data media, I mount /dev/acd0c on /cdrom. For audio media, tracks appear automatically as partitions /dev/acd0t0X.
With the patch freevo at least detects the drive. I have not yet been able to make it play audio CDs or even recognize when a media is in the drive, shouldn't it look up the meta-information? I have another patch ready that at least fixes media ejection; FreeBSD has no "eject" command.
Please review these patches and let us know whether they can be committed as-is, or if not, what changes we should make.
Will do.
Thanks for the quick response!
Lars -- Lars Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> USC Information Sciences Institute
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