ok so now i have my sound running i had to use emerge alsa-utils and emerge alsa-driver and it started to work. well i have mplayer and everything i need to run a dvd installed but then i realized i have no cd/dvd drive recognition i have searched for hours and tried mounting a lot of things like cdrom cdrom1 dvd dvdrw and not one is reckognised what do i do here? want any more info on what the problem is just ask because it looks like my gentoo installation is just barebones and nothing els.



P.S. the only drive i need out of my 2 is a tobisida (however you spell it) and if i could get my stock one to work that would be great and my computer is a gateway500s and also i have no mnt folder is that alright or do i need it

Depending on your desktop environment, when you put a cd in, it should mount it. In gnome, it pops up and lets you browse the cd, or it just mounts it on the desktop.

If you don't have your cdrom in /etc/fstab, then it will automount under /media. That is the way all of mine do anyway.

well it does nothing but how do i add to /etc/fstab so i can mount the device and also under mount it wants me to say a file system but what would that be

I use XFCE, and I use pmount to handle my automatic mouting.

In gnome, gnome-vfs does the mounting, and in KDE I think it is ivman that does the automounting.

If you use something other than those three desktop environments, I don't know what to tell you. I think pmount will work in others though.

To manually mount the cdrom, you are going to need to read up on "mount", by typing "man mount" at the prompt. I don't know the layout of your system, so I can't correctly tell you what device your cdrom is.