[gentoo-user] Re: DVD borked: SysFS removed

2010-08-20 Thread walt
On 08/20/2010 11:33 AM, James wrote: walt gmail.com> writes: $ls -l /dev/dvd lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2010-08-17 04:46 /dev/dvd -> sr0 I get: ls: cannot access /dev/dvd: No such file or directory I forgot an important detail. Your device drivers have changed, so your disks will now sho

[gentoo-user] Re: DVD borked: SysFS removed

2010-08-20 Thread James
walt gmail.com> writes: > < > ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support (DEPRECATED) ---> OK, this fixed the dvd so that now it works...(thanks) ><*> Serial ATA and Parallel ATA drivers ---> I had this already, just deleted the one above. Kernel rebuilt, now it works with Kaffeine to play video

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DVD borked: SysFS removed

2010-08-18 Thread Bill Longman
On 08/17/2010 04:38 PM, walt wrote: > Well, not quite true. I did change my /etc/fstab, but I'm now using disk > labels in fstab instead of device names. If you still use device names > you'll need to change /dev/hd* to /dev/sd* in fstab when using the new > disk drivers. I'm an old-timer with *

[gentoo-user] Re: DVD borked: SysFS removed

2010-08-17 Thread walt
On 08/16/2010 05:13 PM, James wrote: Kaffeine croaks with ///dev/hda error Looks like you are still using the deprecated disk drivers, and you'd probably be better off getting rid of those drivers completely and using the newer replacements. e.g. in 'make menuconfig' select the Device Drivers

[gentoo-user] Re: DVD borked: SysFS removed

2010-08-16 Thread James
Bill Longman gmail.com> writes: > So, there are two problems but the most serious one right now is that > you don't have the /mnt/cdrom directory. Make it. That will solve the > first problem. Ok /mnt/cdrom built. > The second is that you need to tell "mount" that the disk in your CD > drive ha

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DVD borked: SysFS removed

2010-08-16 Thread Bill Longman
On 08/15/2010 09:07 PM, James wrote: > Stroller stellar.eclipse.co.uk> writes: > > >> So what happens when you try `sudo mount -v /dev/sr0 /mnt/cdrom/`? > > mount -v /dev/sr0 /mnt/cdrom/ > mount: you didn't specify a filesystem type for /dev/sr0 >I will try all types mentioned in /etc/f

[gentoo-user] Re: DVD borked: SysFS removed

2010-08-15 Thread James
Stroller stellar.eclipse.co.uk> writes: > So what happens when you try `sudo mount -v /dev/sr0 /mnt/cdrom/`? mount -v /dev/sr0 /mnt/cdrom/ mount: you didn't specify a filesystem type for /dev/sr0 I will try all types mentioned in /etc/filesystems or /proc/filesystems Trying msdos mount:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DVD borked: SysFS removed

2010-08-15 Thread Stroller
On 15 Aug 2010, at 19:14, James wrote: ... # dmesg | grep sr sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 40x/40x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray sr 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 sr 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 5 So what happens when you try `sudo mount -v /dev/sr0 /mnt/cdrom/`? Didn't you think to t

[gentoo-user] Re: DVD borked: SysFS removed

2010-08-15 Thread James
Stroller stellar.eclipse.co.uk> writes: > Do you have something like /dev/dvd ? Where does it point to? Where > are you expecting it to point to? NO. Should I create it? Symlink to? I looked here at the CD rules for udev, but nothing I try is working. I'm not the keenest hack with udev (und