[Techtalk] DVD drive frustrations

[Carla Schroder]

On Monday 07 June 2004 8:50 am, Devdas Bhagat wrote:
> On 07/06/04 03:09 -0700, lupine at sarahj.net wrote:
> <snip>
> > *ouch*  I do not see it in lsmod.  LJL must have missed it 
> > somehow in the install.  *sigh* And I REALLY don't want to 
> > start messing with kernals yet.  Oh well, it looks as though 
> > I will just have to wait until she has the time and 
> > headspace to recompile the kernal for me.  Unless someone 
> > has another suggestion.

> /sbin/modprobe cdrom
> /sbin/modprobe ide-cd
>         as root.
> 

Yes, if the modules exist, that should work.  You can peek in the 
lib/modules/$kernel/kernel/drivers directory to see if they are present:

$ locate modules | grep cd
/lib/modules/2.4.21/kernel/drivers/block/paride/pcd.o
/lib/modules/2.4.21/kernel/drivers/cdrom
/lib/modules/2.4.21/kernel/drivers/cdrom/cdrom.o
/lib/modules/2.4.21/kernel/drivers/ide/ide-cd.o
/lib/modules/2.4.21/kernel/drivers/usb/usblcd.o

I think it's worth noting that using modprobe is preferable to using insmod, 
because modprobe satisfies all dependencies. A lot of documentation still 
refers to insmod. Yes, dependency hell lurks in every corner of Linux, 
waiting to pounce!

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