[Techtalk] Internal DVD rom Drive

[Maria Blackmore]

On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, Raena Lea-Shannon wrote:

> Can anyone suggest a reliable not v.expensive dvd-rom internal driver 
> for my home PC. I am running SuSE presently 7.3 but am upgrading to 
> 8.1. The SuSE hardware database is either down or you have to enter 
> your search in German I don't know, but it is comes up with nil 
> results on *Pioneer* and *Toshiba* and anything else for that matter.

Hi,

All SCSI and IDE DVD-ROM drives are compatible with any Linux
distribution.  You just need to make sure that you're using the 2.4 kernel
series or a late 2.2 kernel [1]

OR do you mean a hardware MPEG decoder to watch a DVD?

have fun

Maria

1: So that DVD support is in the kernel