Re: recognising my cd drive?

[JF Martinez <jfm2@club-internet.fr>]

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> Hi,
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> I've recently recieved an indy cd (thanks Mike), and so far I've got just
> one problem with it. During instalation it doesn't seem to be able to
> recognise my CD ROM drive. I've had this problem with previous RedHat and
> OpenLinux installations I tried, but not on SuSE Linux 5.2, which is why
> it's currently what I run.
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> I know that I need the optcd driver (well thats the one that works for me
> currently, I think), but how do I find out what options I need to specify?
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> I greped /etc/* for 'optcd' and got this:
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> /etc/conf.modules:# options optcd          optcd=0x340
> /etc/conf.modules:alias block-major-17      optcd
> /etc/conf.modules:options optcd optcd=0x320
> /etc/conf.modules.orig:# options optcd          optcd=0x340
> /etc/conf.modules.orig:alias block-major-17      optcd

Could you send a 'cat /proc/modules' of your SUSE when the CDROM is in
use and a whole cat of your /etc/conf.modules?

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			Jean Francois Martinez

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