On Пнд, 2002-02-25 at 02:01, Harry Mangalam wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> Apologies for what may be a newbie question, but I'm trying to correct (?)
> a problem with a Mandrake 8.1 installation on an IBM THinkpad a22p. I
> seem to remember that the CD player worked fine upon initial install but
> then quit at some point.
>
> After a lot of feeling in the dark, I figured out that it was a devfs
> distro and that somehow my cdrom had been mis-mapped from
>
> /dev/cdrom -> cdroms/cdrom0
>
> to
>
> /dev/cdrom -> ../cdroms/cdrom0
>
Use 8.2beta3
{pts/3}% LC_TIME=en rpm -q --changelog devfsd | less
...
* Thu Oct 11 2001 Thierry Vignaud <tvignaud@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
1.3.18-17mdk
- fix cdrom link (fergal)
or edit /etc/devfsd.conf in obvious way. But I strongly urge you to
update. devfs in 8.1 was no the best possible idea (although it has been
good testbed ... but do not tell it innocent users outa there :-)
-andrej
> (altho /dev/cdrom1 -> cdroms/cdrom1 in the correct way)
>
> It may have been me that was responsible for this, but certainly don't
> remember doing this directly..
>
> At any rate, I can't get it to point back to the correct link, either by
> deleting the link and re-establishing it, or by deleting and changing the
> similar files that exist in /lib/dev-state.
>
> Is there some magic trick to doing this?
>
> Also, having found this list via google, I haven't found the subscriber
> address either so until I do, I'd appreciate a direct reply as well as to
> the list.
>
> --
> Cheers, Harry
> Harry J Mangalam - 949 856 2847 (v&f) - hjm@xxxxxxxxx (primary)
> <<plain text appreciated>>
>
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