Laptop Reccomendation

[Jim Smith]

ben darby wrote:
> * Jim Smith wrote:
>   
>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> /dev/scd0       /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 user,noauto     0       0
>>>       
>> This was one of the first things I looked at. Unless there is some kind
>> of disc in the drive /dev/scd0 is not created at boot.
>>     
>
> Jim, I've got a similar vaio but fe series with the same DVD drive mine
> is mapped to /dev/hda;
>
> ben at vaio:~$ dmesg |grep DVR
> [    4.520000] hda: PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-K16D, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
>
> with the harddrive on /dev/sda, is the above line present in your dmesg
> output without the cd inplace? if so u should just be able to manually
> mount it? i also have a symlink from /dev/hda -> /dev/dvd where xine,
> etc. is set to look for a dvd by default.
>
> also re the webcam, the driver you need is in the gspca-source package
> and u'll have to compile the module for it to work, all the doc on what
> todo will be under /usr/share/doc/gspca-source
>
>   
Here is the output of /etc/fstab:
>  /etc/fstab: static file system information.
> #
> # <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
> proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
> /dev/sda4       /               ext3    defaults,errors=remount-ro
> 0       1
> /dev/sda3       none            swap    sw              0       0
> /dev/scd0       /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 user,noauto  
As you see it mounts to the virtual device

Thank you

Jim