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Re: CD-R/RW, Kernel 2.6, Other Stuff



On Sun, 2004-02-29 at 15:24, Harold Crouch wrote:
> SP> This goes away with 2.6 kernels for the most part.  (Things like
> SP> ide-tape are still broken enough that ide-scsi will probably work
> SP> better, unfortunately, but CD-RWs and similar devices won't need
> SP> ide-scsi anymore.)
> 
> Today's upgrade to Kernel 2.6 has gone reasonably smoothly; only 20 or
> 30 landmines were encountered.  :-)  
> 
> The vast majority of 2.6 error messages disappeared when I cleaned out
> /etc/modules.  (And the same error messages no longer appear during
> 2.4 startup!)  I don't quite see the reasoning behind /etc/modules;
> Linux doesn't seem to have any problems auto-detecting hardware all by
> itself.
> 
> The CD-R was dead until I remembered to go into into /etc/fstab and
> switch "scd" back to "hdc."   
> 
> Under 2.6, Grip isn't detecting audio CDs when I insert them in the
> CD-R.  I might not have this new ALSA system correctly configured. 
> Then again, maybe Grip uses OSS instead of ALSA.  I'll just have to
> futz with it a little longer.  
> 
> I still get error messages telling me that modules cannot be located
> and it is assumed that the fuctionality is rolled into the kernel.  In
> fact, the modules *are* rolled directly into the kernel!  Why doesn't
> the kernel see that?  (That was a rhetorical question.)
> 
> I'm not yet burnt out; maybe I'll see if I can make cdrecord work.

Harold,

The attached zipfile contains the three released parts of a five-part
white paper on migrating to the 2.6 kernel. They're in HTML format. They
might be helpful.

--Doc

Migrating_to_Linux_kernel_2.6_Parts_1-3.zip


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