On Wednesday 14 March 2007 09:51, Clayton wrote: > > Functionality IS lost when I have programs that cannot access the > > CD/DVD drive because they are looking for a /dev/cdrom or /dev/hdc > > mount point and wonderful Suse 10.2 won't provide it. Why not? Who > > knows. > > I'm curious what applications or programs you are having issues with. > I've had just one application (X-Plane) take issue with the way mount > points are handled in SUSE, and that is because the installer is > poorly (or badly?) programed. The workaround in this case it to sym > link /mnt/dvd to /media/XPLANE and it works fine... not the most > elegant solution, but the fault (in my opinion) is the X-Plane > installer not HAL or anything related to how SUSE implements mount > points. > > Otherwise all applications I have that need to access the DVD writer > or DVD reader I have in my PC work perfectly.
That's because you are working in a smaller universe. Never assume that just because something works there that it works everywhere. Dvdshrink is one app that I can think of right now. It runs under wine and expects a mounted device, not a damned media label. It worked just fine under Suse 9.1 and it should work fine now but it doesn't. No, I do not think that I should create a simlink each and every time that I want to use one of these programs that require a device mount point. Yes, I know what the problem is and I would like for the design team to realize that it is a problem that needs to be fixed. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
