On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 12:19 AM, Drake Donahue <donahu...@comcast.net> wrote: > On Tue, 2009-04-28 at 22:02 +0000, Daiajo Tibdixious wrote: >> When I boot off the live CD there is a /dev/hda /dev/cdrom /dev/cdrw >> /dev/dvd /dev/dvdrw etc & it works just fine. >> >> When I boot off my kernel there are no such devices & I can't use the drive. >> >> This is the same drive as in my old system, which just worked with no >> tweaking before. >> >> Obviously I am missing some driver, yet I have grovelled thru >> menuconfig to no avail. >> Google turns up many similar problems, however none have been helpful. >> >> If I boot off the live cd, is there a way to see what options I need? >> >> The drive shows as "PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-109" on the live cd. >> > if you have evdev support in your kernel, and dbus and hald in the boot > or default run level, your cd/dvd should automount in /media. > If you have gone with the current kernel trend it will be /dev/sr0 (sr_ > something anyway) all hard drives will be sd_ and there will be no hd_. > Aliasing will probably allow you to umount /dev/sr0 and then > mount /dev/hda /mnt/cdrom. Easier to go with the flow and leave cd/dvd > out of fstab and up to auto.
evdev is on in the kernel (INPUT_EVDEV & a USB one). hald is in the defalut run level dbus was installed but not in a run level, I put it in default. After starting dbus, putting a disk in the drive does nothing, no /dev/sr*, nothing in dmesg (like there is for USB, which is working), which is the same as before. Nothing in /media either.
