At 23:25 03/31/2005 -0800, William Kent S wrote:
>Hi All
>Is there anyone on this list that could help me with a problem. I have a
>DVD/CD-ROM drive on my win2000/Linux computer it works fine on the windows
>OS.
>
>But when I put a CD in the drive it works. When I put an DVD in it doesn't
>work and I cannot burn CD's The OS is Red Hat 9. The Devise Type is ATAPI
>DVD DD 2X16X4X16 Standard CD-ROM Drive. What I need is an RPM for this
>device and know how to install the RPM from the GUI
What doesn't work? There are different types of DVD. Are you refering to a
data DVD or a movie DVD?
If it's your desire to play movies under Linux, your best bet is to do an
upgrade to Fedora Core 3. From there is is trivial to install a movie
player called xine. None of the Redhat/Fedora releases have the ability to
play movie DVDs without external packages due to license restrictions.
Redhat 9 requires that you use the IDE-SCSI emulation layer to talk to the
CDROM drive in order to burn a CDROM. In your grub.conf file, found at
/boot/grub/grub.conf, you should see a line that says something like:
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20 ro root=/dev/hda1 hdc=ide-scsi
The key part is the end of the line where you see hdc=ide-scsi
hdc is the CDROM drive as seen by Linux. This may be different on your
system. To see what the actual device name is, run dmesg and look for the
line that refers to your CDROM drive. You can do it like this from a
command prompt:
$ dmesg | less
Scroll down the output looking for the CDROM drive. The line from my system
looks like this:
hdd: SONY CD-RW CRX320E, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
Yours should have the name of the manufacturer of your drive.
If the grub.conf file does not have the appropriate parameter for your
CDROM drive, you will need to add it. You can do a trial run first though
by rebooting the system. When grub shows you the boot screen you can use
the edit mode to add the hdc=ide-scsi as a kernel parameter. Once that is
done, you can try using xcdroast to burn a CDROM.
Gus
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