Laptop Reccomendation

[John L Fjellstad]

Jim Smith <jim at oz.net> writes:

> No it does not. If you try to use any Linux DVD player (xine, mplayer
> etc.) the error message is "No device /dev/scd0." As above. If
> however, the disc is in the drive _at bootup_ then the disc is
> recognised, the icon is displayed and disc can be played
> normally. Also, if there is a disc in the drive at boot and then that
> disc is ejected all subsequent discs are recognised when loaded. In
> short there has to be some sort of disc, even a blank will do, in the
> drive at boot for the drive to work.

Could it because a module doesn't get loaded if you don't have a disc in
the drive at bootup?

Do this, first with disc and then without
/sbin/lsmod

See if there is a difference.  If there is (I'm guessing sr_mod, sg or
something like that will be missing), just add those modules to
/etc/modules

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John L. Fjellstad
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