On Tuesday 27 November 2007, Joost Roeleveld wrote: > > On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 07:53:40 +0100, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > >> There is no need to do so. However, a fuse based filesystem for mounting > >> audio CDs exists, see http://castet.matthieu.free.fr/cddfs/. > > > > Oh, thank you all for your input -- I've been a bit obsessed with rails > > and let this go to the back burner a bit. > > > > However, I did notice that when I click on "CDROM" from nautilus there's > > a message about HAL; again, though, it cannot be a hardware issue as > > these particular discs and drives work in another distro on the same > > machine. > > If the discs and drives work on the same machine with a different distro, > then I agree, the hardware should work. > > Also, as the /dev/ entries exist and it doesn't complain about that, the > drives are probably detected correctly. > > > I believe it to be a driver issue (HAL is a hardware driver? Hardware > > Abstraction Layer? But isn't it more BIOS than OS?). I'll double check > > things with some data discs on the other distro in the next few days and > > do some more googling (and wikipedia-ing). > > Can you also check with datadiscs on the Gentoo installation? > I agree with the others that audio-discs are generally not mountable. > The FUSE-driver for Audio-discs might be installed on your other distro > (Redhat?), but is not installed by default with Gentoo. > > > If this sheds any light: > > > > > > arrakis ~ # > > arrakis ~ # dmesg | grep 'cd' > > ehci_hcd 0000:00:03.3: EHCI Host Controller > > <Snipped dmesg-output> > > When I do the above command, it only shows me the cd/dvd writer, not the > cdrom drive. > Can you post the full output of "dmesg" after you booted the system? > > > I think it's more on shutdown that I notice lotsa weird messages about > > the cdrom drive(s) since futzing with /etc/fstab. > > Can you also give us the contents of your "/etc/fstab" file?
Haven't followed up all of this thread, but it may well be a clash between hald/dbus trying to control your media devices and your fstab. Entries in the latter are only applicable if you want to be mounting such devices manually. -- Regards, Mick
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