umm... i don't think you would need to recompile your kernel again it already supports iso-9660
just edit your /etc/fstab. This is mine below; yours should be similar...

/dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hda2 / reiserfs defaults 1 1
/dev/hda1 /boot reiserfs defaults 1 2
/dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom iso9660 user,noauto,owner,ro 0 0
/dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom1 iso9660 user,noauto,owner,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0

this is so true !

[QUOTE]Originally posted by LavaDevil94
[B]well, i finally got ther kernel working!!! [B]

SO... how did you get it to work???


Thanks
Alex

in reply to ababkin (thanks AutOPSY), i got it working by installing the package you told me about, then i recomplied. also, i just recompiled, and ive got the regular cdrom drive and the internet working, so im talking to you from kernel 2.6.5-goddard! the only thing preventing me from getting rid of that old lilo entry is this when i attempt to play a dvd with mplayer:
libdvdread: Could not open device with libdvdcss
libdvdread: Can't open /dev/dvd for reading
Couldn't open DVD device: /dev/dvd

i had the problem of mplayer trying to read /dev/dvd, all i did was to make a symbolic link between the two...

i think it was

ln /dev/cdrom1 /dev/dvd

or something like that!

remember tho - i am a total and only got this install working 3 days ago!

i dont have a /dev/cdrom* for some reason, in fact, the /dev/dvd is a symlink to /dev/hdd. thanks for the tip, though. ill try reinstalling libdvdcss, and putting those links in.

do you have 2 cd's ie dvd and cd-rw or something? if you dont leave out the 1, ie
ln /dev/cdrom /dev/dvd

i have 2 seperate drives, a cdrw drive and a dvdrom drive, so that wouldnt apply. btw, i have a little update. i tried mplayer dvd://1 while root, and i got different output:
Playing dvd://1
Reading disc structure, please wait...
libdvdread: Can't seek to block 256
libdvdread: Can't open file VIDEO_TS.IFO.
Can't open VMG info!
and thats what i get. also, im having troubles with mount, doing mount /mnt/cdrom gives me:
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/scd0, or too many mounted file systems
but if i mount it like this:
mount -t iso9660 /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom
it works fine, unless im not root, otherwise it says "only root can do that".

suggestions?

unless you change the options only root can mount things - at least that is my understanding

as for the dvd thing,

my /dev/cdrom points to /dev/hdc
/dev/cdrom1 points to /dev/hdd
/dev/dvd points to /dev/cdrom1

i have 4 hdd's tho 2 on a promise controller

/dev/hdg and /dev/hdh

try redoing decss with /dev/dvd pointing to /dev/hdd that is the only thing i can think off, sorry i am a

well, i figured out thats not the case. i get this when i hdparm -tT (test it) /dev/dvd:
read() hit EOF - device too small
and it doesnt start the test, but it does exit. something even more strange is this, which happens when i try to enable dma on any device other then /dev/dvd:
hdparm -d1 /dev/hda
HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted
seeing as how i am root while i do this, and i did this after a chmod 775 /dev/hda, i dont know what the problem is.

well, i fixed the operation not permitted problem by recompiling my kernel (about 13 times in 2 days!) again with some options tweaked, but i still get the same problems with the cdrom and dvd drives.

Lava

so how did you fix your initial problem with the kernel
(i.e modprobe: QM_MODULES : Function not implemented)

did the initmodtools 3.0 did the trick for u?
i have it installed and still no go.
did you install the modtools from rpm or recompiled it?

Thanks
Alex

Ok, i don't know if this will work for you but give it a shot. If you don't have a cdrom in your /mnt dir then you will have to make one, but first cd into your /mnt to see what is in there; usually a cdrom, cdrom1 and fd0. If there isn't a cdrom or cdrom1 then make a diretctoy for them by-- mkdir cdrom and/or cdrom1. Now edit your /etc/fstab to look like this...

/dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom iso9660 user,noauto,owner,ro 0 0
/dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom1 iso9660 user,noauto,owner,ro 0 0

then mount your cdroms by becoming root and issuing (put a data cd into the drive too)... mount /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom now try... eject /dev/hdc if the drive ejects it works, and just do the same to the other drive as well.

As for reconfiguring your kernel 13 times in 2 days, i did the same thing when i first started to use Linux, including reinstalling Slack about 10 times, but it paid off because i can have them installed in about 20 min each; when it took me hrs before.

well, heres what i got when i modded the config to what you said and issued the command:

mount /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom
mount: error while guessing filesystem type
mount: you must specify the filesystem type

and i specified the fs type with this:

mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdc,
or too many mounted file systems
(could this be the IDE device where you in fact use
ide-scsi so that sr0 or sda or so is needed?)

but with this:

mount -t iso9660 /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom

it works fine. btw, i have in my /mnt dir: floppy, cdrom, cdrom2. i did all of this as root.

update: actually, when i tried the dvd drive using

mount -t iso9660 /dev/scd1 /mnt/cdrom2

it mounted the dvd fine. i looked at the error output of mplayer again, and i found that it was looking for VIDEO_TS.IFO, and the actual file was called the exact same thing, except it was in lower caps (:snicker, anyone know how to redirect mplayer?