capsel schreef: > I've found that I changed configuration of my kernel - cdrom driver > is loaded as module and must be loaded on boot (before > hotplug/coldplug ?) for hdc to be created. Somehow parport_pc is > loaded automaticly. > > What can I do to force hotplug/coldplug to load ide-cd and so to > force udev to create hdc? I added ide-cd to > /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6. >
Well, that should work, but the 'better' way is simply to recompile the kernel so that ide-cd is statically compiled (* or Y, rather than M), and then it would be automatically loaded by the kernel when the device is discovered (which would also tell you if you have a hardware issue, because the device wasn't discovered during the normal hardware scan the kernel makes at boot). What runlevel is hotplug set to run in (rc-update show)? If boot, then the problem with having the module in /etc/modules.autoload.d is that the service (hotplug) is running before the module load, whereas if hotplug is set to run at 'default', it runs *after* the modules in /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 are loaded, or at least that is my experience. But since you aren't likely to be hotplugging your CD device anyway (unless this is a laptop with an external drive), it just makes more sense to compile the driver (Device Drivers=> ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support=> Include IDE/ATAPI CDROM support) statically (which I thought was the default kernel config setting anyway) and just let coldplug handle it. HTH, Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
