On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 10:39, Steve Withers wrote: > I have a system recently installed with Gentoo 1.4. I've added Xfree, > KDE 3, Mozilla, X-CDRoast and Xine. > > The system sees the hard drives - no problems. > > It sees the CDR/RW.....and I have happily burnt some CD-Rs...that was > easy. > > But for playing DVDs, the system can't see the second "CD" drive.....the > DVD/CD player. I have loaded the ide-scsi module....but the KDE Info > Centre remains oblivious....and I'm assuming it is using proc to get its > info. > > Most of the DVD setup info on the Net is 3 years old or more....and they > talk about 2.2 kernels.....so I don't want to dig into that and make a > mess of things. > > I was thinking of installing autofs...Good idea?
All you need to do, after emergeing what ever dvd player you want, is to create a symbolic link from you dvd drive to /dev/dvd. Example... ln -s /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /dev/dvd The above line is asuming that your dvd drive is the first, if it's not replace the '0' with what ever # yours is. You will also need UDF read support in your kernel, as a module or static it doesn't matter. Jayson Garrell -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
