On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 05:24:14PM +1100, Wolfgang Gill wrote: > I am currently setting up RH8.0 for a friend on his Compaq Armada M700 > Notebook. All is working ok. BUT, I would like to configure the CD-ROM which > does it all, CD, CD/RW, DVD. It can see the device as /dev/cdrom. But I > can't seem to be able to configure it for cd burning. Has anyone else set > anything up like this for a notebook?? The installer should have set this up so that ide-scsi emulation is used for this device. Check that the module is loaded: lsmod Also check to see if it's set up in /boot/grub/grub.conf: kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-14 ro root=LABEL=/ hdb=ide-scsi What does cdrecord -scanbus show? You can use cdrecord -inq to get more info about the device itself. Once you know where the device is, you can either specify it with the dev= option in cdrecord, or you can set the CDR_DEVICE environment variable (in $HOME/.bash_profile, /etc/profile, or a separate file in /etc/profile.d.) For cdrdao, you can make a link from /dev/cdrecorder to whichever "SCSI generic" device is used for he recorder (unless it's on the second SCSI bus, this is usually going to be /dev/sg0) cd /dev ln -s sg0 cdrecorder Cdrdao also will probably need to be told which driver to use. You can get this info with the "cdrecord -inq" command above. You can then set this in $HOME/.cdrdao write_driver: "generic-mmc" read_driver: "generic-mmc" write_device: "0,0,0" read_device: "0,0,0" The above is what I use for the Matshita CDRW/DVD combo drive that came with my Inspiron. I use cdrdao only for reading the TOC file on CDs and for writing the final audio CD; it's extremely slow when copying CDs, so I use cdparanoia 1- data.wav for the copy step. If you want to be able to use the recorder as a user rather than root, the /dev/cdrecorder link above comes in handy. Just create a line in /etc/security/console.perms for it: <cdrw>=/dev/cdrecorder* Then whoever "owns" the console (i.e. the person sitting in front of the machine) will be able to use the recorder without being root (for cdrecord, cdrdao, and cdparanoia). For DVD play, go to http://freshrpms.net where you'll find all the software you'll need to play DVDs in RPM format. You may also need to load a few Red Hat RPMs that didn't get loaded during the initial install. up2date comes in handy for this, e.g. up2date glut I didn't say anything about GUIs for cd recording because I don't use them, but there are several that come with RH8 (look for names like burn, combust, etc.) Well, that's somewhat of an infodump, but I hope you find some of it useful. Dave Cook -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
