Re: Heres a good Laptop Question...

[Lee Helpingstine <sig11@ideacomputers.com>]

You should not need to build in a special driver unless it is a very old
cdrom.  You might check the cdrom howto, and the linux on laptops howto.
they can probably tell you.  You can do the whole trial and error thing,
build all the modules and try each one? ;)

	Lee


On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, David A. Glass wrote:

> 
> > You don't use a cdrom driver unless you have an ancient cdrom.  
> > What was your cdrom device before?  Did you try /dev/hdb, or 
> > /dev/hdc?  /dev/cdrom is a link to the real cd device.  
> 
> This I know.. under Mandrake 5.3 it reports /dev/hdc as a cdrom, but in
> the kernel configuration there are several different options for different
> types of cdroms, I just need to find out witch option my current kernel is
> using so I can compile a new one...
> 


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