Hello, A few weeks ago I updated all of the gentoo systems I manage to udev. (Late to the udev party). Well I've got vlc, mplayer, and kaffeine working splendidly on 2 different intel portables. However, an Athlon on an Asus A7v8X-X motherboard is not happy with the dvd or the audio: Works fine, as audio CDs play just fine.
Hardware: AMD Athlon(TM) XP 2400+ (from lscpi) 0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] (rev a1) (from lshw) capabilities: smbios-2.3 dmi-2.3 product: A7V8X-X vendor: ASUSTeK Computer INC. physical id: 0 version: REV 1.xx description: BIOS vendor: Award Software, Inc. physical id: 0 version: ASUS A7V8X-X ACPI BIOS Revision 1007 (11/13/2003) *-cdrom description: IDE CD-ROM product: SAMSUNG CD-ROM SC-152G physical id: 0 bus info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] logical name: /dev/hdc version: C400 capabilities: packet atapi cdrom removable nonmagnetic dma lba iordy audio (from dmesg) hdc: SAMSUNG CD-ROM SC-152G, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive Kernel (miscellaneous from config file: CONFIG_I2C_NFORCE2=m CONFIG_SENSORS_VIA686A=y CONFIG_VIDEO_DEV=y CONFIG_FB=y CONFIG_FB_NVIDIA=m # CONFIG_FB_NVIDIA_I2C is not set Symptoms: When (2.6.14-gentoo-r2)booting I get this error: AT boot time: screen errors related to lm_sensors, which I do not think are related to audio and DVD problems. video: vlc's gui fires up but nothing happens when I select to play a DVD that plays on an intel portable.. Kaffeine gives more information: "The source can't be read. Maybe you don't have enough rights for this, or the sourece doesn't contain data (e.g. no disc in drive). (/dev/dvd)" Sooooooooooo: I did notice The dvd devices are missing: ls -alg /dev/dvd ls: /dev/dvd: No such file or directory likewise video is missing: ls -alg /dev/video ls: /dev/video: No such file or directory The dvd/video devices are not being created by the boot process and udev, or I've munged things up in the kernel. Ideas on how to diagnose and fix the dvd mapping to hdc are welcome. James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list