CIFS mount problem with 3.4.2-1.fc16.x86_64 kernel

2012-06-24 Thread D Wyatt
Hi,

After running a yum update on F16 which included the 3.4.2-1.fc16.x86_64
kernel, and rebooting to that kernel, all the CIFS mounts failed with
error 22 (Invalid Argument).

In '/var/log/messages I found a series of entries like this:

Jun 24 05:34:36 mel kernel: [ 3989.465216] CIFS: Unknown mount
option "UID=500"

Removing UID=500 from an fstab entry allowed me to mount that Win7
share, but all files/dirs in that share are now root:root.  I also
tried UID=user_name, but got the same invalid arg error.

Rebooting to the prev kernel (3.3.8-1.fc16.x86_64), fstab entries with
UID=500 again mounted w/o error and shares again show the approp owner.

Is this a bug in the newer kernel?

Thanks for any help you can offer,
Doug Wyatt


P.S. My apologies if this is a duplicate message - I sent the original
about 4 hours ago, but haven't yet received a copy from the list.  I
looked for an online archive to check, but failed to find anything
more recent than 2010.
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CIFS mount problem with 3.4.2-1.fc16.x86_64 kernel

2012-06-24 Thread D Wyatt
Hi,

I just ran a yum update on F16 which included the 3.4.2-1.fc16.x86_64
kernel.

All the CIFS mounts failed, error 22 (Invalid Argument).  In 'messages'
I found a series of msgs like this:
  Jun 24 05:34:36 mel kernel: [ 3989.465216] CIFS: Unknown mount option
"UID=500"

Removing UID=500 from an fstab entry allowed me to mount the Win7 share,
but all files/dirs in that share are now root:root.  I also tried
changing to UID=user_name, but got the same invalid arg error.

Rebooting to the prev kernel (3.3.8-1.fc16.x86_64), fstab entries with
UID=500 again mounted w/o error and shares again show the approp owner.

Is this a bug in the newer kernel?

Thanks for any help you can offer,
Doug Wyatt

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F15, konqueror sometimes hangs

2011-10-31 Thread D Wyatt

After the most recent updates to kde, I'm seeing konqueror
hang every few hours, with no identifiable cause.

What I see is that all currently running konqueror windows stop
responding or refreshing.  If konqueror is obscured by another
window, when that window is minimized the konqueror window will
present as all grey.

The hang will eventually resolve and konqueror again becomes
useable.  The duration of the hang is more than 10 minutes and
less than 60 minutes.  I'm not sure how i can more accurately
measure the duration of the hang, short of staring at the screen
for the duration.

Load levels don't seem abnormal, other apps continue to work ok.
There is plenty of free memory - 200-400 MB.  CPU usage is low.

FWIW, I was seeing similar behavior when starting gwenview before
the last kde update.  I would start qwenview to view a jpeg and
it would come up as a greyed-out window, then some time (> 5 mins)
later the image and gwenview menus would finally appear.

Any ideas?

Regards,
D Wyatt
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Re: Mplayer equalizer doesn't work

2010-10-29 Thread D Wyatt
On 10/29/2010 9:26 AM, Tim wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-10-28 at 21:06 -0500, D Wyatt wrote:
>> If I wanted everything brighter, then the monitor level would
>> obviously be the place to change settings.  If anything, I would
>> be more likely to *lower* the monitor's brightness.  Generally,
>> the whole video is acceptable but when there are, for example,
>> nighttime scenes that just look black, increasing the brightness
>> reveals details so you have some clue as to what is going on.
> 
> You did mention the majority of videos were too dark, which (going by
> averages) suggests that your brightness is too low to start with, and
> only looks okay when watching something that's already too bright.
> 
> Though, to use a computer for two wildly different things (watching
> videos, and other computing tasks), really calls for adjusting something
> else - "gamma" (more about that below).
> 
>> I tend to be a multi-tasker - I never do anything full-screen.
>> I have been noticing a slight growth in the tendency on linux to
>> configure tools with the expectation that they will be the only
>> thing in use until their use is completed.
> 
> Yes...  Menus that take up a third of the desktop space, likewise with
> other programs where a huge GUI means you end up with a keyhole to look
> at what YOU were interested in...  And (not) sharing sound hardware...
> 
>> For example, another minor complaint w/resp to gmplayer is that
>> between F12 and F13 the ability to minimize the control console of the
>> gui has been eliminated.  The video window can be minimized, but not
>> the control console.  In F12, both could be individually minimized.
> 
> I haven't used gmplayer for ages, I can't recall all the reasons, but
> smplayer seemed better.  It works in a window, or fullscreen, and in
> fullscreen with or without navigation controls (depending on if you
> moved the mouse to the bottom of the screen, to make the controls
> appear).
> 
>> Oh, and btw, I have not noticed any tendency for videos to be too
>> bright.  I have never lowered the brightness on any video, be it
>> Anime, TV show or movie.  Even youtube clips are sometimes so dark
>> that i have to download the .flv or .mp4 and view it in gmplayer
>> with increased brightness.
> 
> Sounds like you have settings all over the place, then.  What you've
> described is the classic case seen from turning one thing up in one
> place, and the same thing down, elsewhere (once destroyed, it can't be
> restored, later).  e.g. Brightness down on the monitor, brightness up on
> the video player.  It also sounds like a mixing up of terminology
> (contrast and brightness, and playing with the wrong ones).  Not to
> mention the usual computer defaults being inappropriate (jet black text
> on full white background, is like staring at texta writing on a
> fluorescent tube; and with a low res LCD, like staring at a fluorescent
> light through flyscreen).
> 
> When you set up a computer monitor properly, so that the full range from
> black to white is shown as actually black to white, with everything in
> between.  You get a proper computer display, suitable for real work
> (such as photo editing), or, at the very least, you get to see
> everything; as well as it being suitable for play.  Though, with the
> usability problem I mentioned a moment ago - thanks to the the usual
> page colouring defaults.   The real solution (for that) would be to use
> not-white pages, though the usual fix is turn the CONTRAST down (reduce
> the range), not the brightness (make everything blacker, including
> making things blacker than black).
> 
> Video, meant for watching on TV (whether that be a movie on DVD, tape,
> or from your home video camera), on the other hand, has a different
> gamma than a computer monitor screen.  The gamma boosts the dark end of
> the range, lightening up the dark portions, without affecting (much) the
> lighter portions.   Gamma correction was originally done to compensate
> for the original television picture tubes - the camera was tweaked in
> the opposite direction, rather than correct the TV set.  And we've been
> stuck with it ever since, even when the display technology changed
> (they've either done opposing gamma correction, on top of the gamma
> correction, in the display; or left you to look at a malformed picture).
> Now we have TV sets with a plethora of user adjustments, trying to make
> something good out of something inadequate (all those cinema viewing
> mode presets on your brand spanking new plasmas).
> 
> Video has more gamma than computing.  For some reason, the computing
> fraternity decided to be differen

Re: Intermittent freezing

2010-10-29 Thread D Wyatt
On 10/29/2010 7:10 AM, Rick Sewill wrote:
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> Hash: SHA1
> 
> On 10/29/2010 04:05 AM, Nigel Bishop wrote:
>> I am running Fedora 13 with Linux Kernel 2.6.33-3.85.fc13.x86_64 with Gnome
>> 2.30.0 on HP laptop ProBook 4510S
>>
>> At times, it almost freezes, with very slow response to the keyboard. System
>> monitor shows that something is hogging the CPU. Sometimes, after a few
>> minutes, it recovers, other times I have to re-boot.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Nigel
>>
>>
> 
> Which system monitor program are you using?
> 
> To my surprise, gnome-system-monitor shows me, under Processes, only my
> processes, not all the processes in the system.
> 
> Question to everyone, is there a way to have gnome-system-monitor show
> all processes, in the system, not just my processes?
> 
> The KDE system monitor, ksysguard, on the other hand, can show me all
> processes in the system.
> 
> One can also run "top" in a shell.
> If "top -i" is done, idled or zombied processes will not be displayed.
> 

Firefox's npviewer.bin is a common culprit, here.  I've seen it grab
and hang onto more than 90% of CPU in both linux and WinXP, even when
no Flash is being played at the time. This only happens after playing
a series of youtube vids, though.

The top cmd run in a root shell, or KDE system monitor will show all
processes.

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Re: Mplayer equalizer doesn't work

2010-10-28 Thread D Wyatt
On 10/28/2010 8:39 AM, Tim wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-10-27 at 14:09 -0500, D Wyatt wrote:
>> The majority of videos play a little too dark, so I usually bump up
>> the brightness about 10 points.
> 
> If the majority are bad, perhaps the real issue's outside of mplayer
> (monitor set up, or all video output).
> 
> Usually, video's look too bright (or at least the darker portions of the
> video signal), as they're prepared for television sets, which have a
> different gamma than computer monitors.
> 
If I wanted everything brighter, then the monitor level would
obviously be the place to change settings.  If anything, I would
be more likely to *lower* the monitor's brightness.  Generally,
the whole video is acceptable but when there are, for example,
nighttime scenes that just look black, increasing the brightness
reveals details so you have some clue as to what is going on.

I tend to be a multi-tasker - I never do anything full-screen.
I have been noticing a slight growth in the tendency on linux to
configure tools with the expectation that they will be the only
thing in use until their use is completed.  For example, another
minor complaint w/resp to gmplayer is that between F12 and F13 the
ability to minimize the control console of the gui has been
eliminated.  The video window can be minimized, but not the control
console.  In F12, both could be individually minimized.

Oh, and btw, I have not noticed any tendency for videos to be too
bright.  I have never lowered the brightness on any video, be it
Anime, TV show or movie.  Even youtube clips are sometimes so dark
that i have to download the .flv or .mp4 and view it in gmplayer
with increased brightness.

Regards,
D Wyatt
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Re: Mplayer equalizer doesn't work

2010-10-27 Thread D Wyatt
On 10/27/2010 12:25 PM, JD wrote:
>   On 10/27/2010 12:21 AM, D Wyatt wrote:
>> In ~/.mplayer/config, vo=xv, ao=alsa, vf=eq2
> I have mplayer-1.0-0.117.20100703svn.fc13.i686
> and I have the seame settings in ~/.mplayer/config
> and yet, mplayer does not show any of the slides
> you mention. Are you sure the slides you are talking
> about are not part of some other GUI tool?
> 
> One equalizer that works well is the
> pulseaudio-equalizer-2.7-3.fc13.noarch
> 
> Install it and run it. In the gui, you have to enable it
> and then set your equalizer slides
> On older cpus like mine, it is a kludgey interface because
> it has a considerable lag time between setting and taking
> the effect.
> Try it.
> 
Fwiw, I have mplayer-1.0-0.117.20100703svn.fc13.x86_64.

I usually invoke it by right-clicking on a filename in
Konqueror and selecting mplayer from the drop-down menu.

Perhaps you are referring to the non-gui, command line
invocation of mplayer.  I generally use the gui unless I
need specific options such as diagnostic output.  In the
gui vrsn, right click brings up a drop-down menu, where
you can select the equalizer; mouse clicks in the video
display invoked from the cmdline produce an error, if I
recall correctly.  As I thought I emphasized, it is the
brightness control I am most interested in, not audio.
However, I am aware of the pulse mixer.

I have been using mplayer since at least as far back as F7,
maybe F4 (I can't remember for sure).  It is my primary
video viewer on linux and I use it a lot.  The majority of
videos play a little too dark, so I usually bump up the
brightness about 10 points.

Regards,
D Wyatt
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Re: Mplayer equalizer doesn't work

2010-10-27 Thread D Wyatt
On 10/27/2010 2:06 AM, JD wrote:
>   On 10/26/2010 11:53 PM, D Wyatt wrote:
>> I'm setting up a 64-bit F13; mplayer is from rpmfusion.  Box is
>> a core2 duo multiboot.
>>
>> F12, 32-bit, is on another partition and mplayer works fine there.
>> The F13 mplayer is configured identically to the one in F12, but
>> in F13 the audio slides won't move; the video slides initially are
>> set at full scale and moving them produces no change.  In F12 the
>> brightness and contrast are initially set at midscale - I usually
>> increase brightness by about 10 for dark videos.
>>
>> Mplayer is set to use the Xv driver in both cases. In ~/.mplayer
>> config file, vo=xv, ao=alsa, vf=eq2.
>> Tried vf=hue=0.0:1.0,eq2=1.0:1.0:0.1:1.0:1.0:1.0:1.0:1.0, but
>> changes to the 3rd eq2 field (brightness) had no effect.  Also,
>> pressing keys 3 or 4 have no effect.
>>
>> Nouveau is installed on both F12 and F13.  GPU is 9800GT.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Doug Wyatt
>>
>>
>>
>>
> I run mplayer - but I can never get the slides to show.
> What do you to make the slides appear? Is it a different gui app?
> I would like to try what you're doing.
> 

In ~/.mplayer/config, vo=xv, ao=alsa, vf=eq2 were what got it
working in F12 (32-bit).  I am just using the std mplayer from
the rpmfusion repository.

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Mplayer equalizer doesn't work

2010-10-26 Thread D Wyatt
I'm setting up a 64-bit F13; mplayer is from rpmfusion.  Box is
a core2 duo multiboot.

F12, 32-bit, is on another partition and mplayer works fine there.
The F13 mplayer is configured identically to the one in F12, but
in F13 the audio slides won't move; the video slides initially are
set at full scale and moving them produces no change.  In F12 the
brightness and contrast are initially set at midscale - I usually
increase brightness by about 10 for dark videos.

Mplayer is set to use the Xv driver in both cases. In ~/.mplayer
config file, vo=xv, ao=alsa, vf=eq2.
Tried vf=hue=0.0:1.0,eq2=1.0:1.0:0.1:1.0:1.0:1.0:1.0:1.0, but
changes to the 3rd eq2 field (brightness) had no effect.  Also,
pressing keys 3 or 4 have no effect.

Nouveau is installed on both F12 and F13.  GPU is 9800GT.

Any ideas?

Regards,
Doug Wyatt




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Re: Trying to understand input/output error seen while reading newly burned dvd+r

2010-07-20 Thread D Wyatt
On 7/20/2010 9:31 AM, Tim wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-07-19 at 23:29 -0700, JD wrote:
>> What I also do to reduce the likelihood of a bad burn, is I reduce
>> the burn speed to 2x. Burning at 52X (cdr) or 22X (dvdr) will have
>> a higher likelihood of a bad burn. Some will say this is bunk. I say
>> I have proven it in practice.
> 
> Seconded!  A slower burn is more reliable.  Though I've found medium
> speeds good enough, I don't have the patience for the slowest speeds.
> And some drives/discs exclude them from the supported burning speed
> list, anyway.
> 

My thanks for your replies, however as I thought I indicated,
my problem does not seem to be in the burn process but in the
ISO that I created from a directory on my HD.  The ISO was not
downloaded.

I had seen similar problems before so I had started loop mounting
my ISO's after creating them and doing a diff -r between the
mounted ISO and the origin directory.  If there was an error, I
would recreate the ISO and test it again before burning to DVD+R.

This time, the diff between the mounted ISO and the origin dir
passed w/o error, so I burned it and then did a diff between the
newly burned DVD and the origin dir.  That diff gave an error, so
I burned a second DVD from that ISO, ran diff, and got exactly the
same error on this DVD as the first DVD I'd burned.

I remounted the ISO (mount -o loop ...) and again ran diff -r
against the origin dir to double check and again saw no error.
This is what puzzles me.

Nonetheless, I recreated the ISO from the origin dir, mounted and
tested it, found no error and burned a DVD from the new ISO.  This
time a diff -r between the new DVD and the origin dir passed.

The puzzlement comes from the apparent fact that the first ISO was
flawed in some way that a diff (on the loop mounted ISO) didn't pick
up on.  Still, it yielded exactly the same error in two burns.

Regards,
D Wyatt




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Re: Trying to understand input/output error seen while reading newly burned dvd+r

2010-07-19 Thread D Wyatt

Well, I'm no less confused, but ...

Despite the fact that the first iso compared w/o error to the
originating directory after being mounted, i went ahead and
recreated the iso and burned another dvd+r from that.

The new dvd now compares w/ no errors to the original directory.

I hate apparent nondeterministic events!

D Wyatt

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Trying to understand input/output error seen while reading newly burned dvd+r

2010-07-19 Thread D Wyatt
Hi,

I'm running 32-bit Fedora 12 on a recently built core2 duo system.
The dvd burner is a month-old Samsung drive.

I use imgburn 2.5.0.0 under Wine to create iso's and burn them to disk.
   ( Imgburn works better than K3B; e.g. if iso is near the disk
 capacity, K3B says it won't fit.  Also, Imgburn worked on
 Fedora 7 flawlessly. )

The disk that prompts this posting gives an input/output error
on a file when I run a diff -r comparing it to the original HD
directory.  The file that is associated with the i/o error is
near the 'end' of the diff.

This is the second disk burned from this data directory - the first
one gave the same i/o error on the same file.

No errors are logged in /var/log/messages.

If I mount the dvd i can display the image file that is associated
with the i/o error in gwenview, gThumb, Gnome Image Viewer and Okular
with no errors apparent.  No problems are seen in viewing other files
in the target file's proximity (preceding/following files).

I've mounted the iso image and run a diff -r comparing it to the
original HD directory with NO errors.

Can anyone give me some insight into this error or suggestions
about any other tests I can perform?

Regards,
D Wyatt
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Re: How to compare filesystem contents

2010-05-07 Thread D Wyatt
On 5/7/2010 4:05 AM, Andrew Junev wrote:
> Hello All,
> 
>  I was moving my filesystem to a new disk with 'cp -ax' command (as
>  root). It completed with no error messages, but I can see some
>  difference between the old and the new filesystems when using df:
> 
> # df
> Filesystem   1K-blocks  Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/mapper/vg_mythbackend-wd20eads
>  1922859824 1791862788  33321364  99% /newdisk
> /dev/mapper/VolTerabytes00-Data00
>  1922868016 1793705984  51021168  98% /olddisk
> 
> 
> My new filesystem uses ext4, while old one was using ext3 - can that
> be somehow related?. I fact, I don't see how it can affect the used
> space reported, since block size is 4K for both...
>  
> I'm pretty sure I stopped most of the processes, so there was none that
> could write to original filesystem while files were copied. Well,
> maybe I missed something...
> 
> Is there an easy way to check which files are there on the old
> filesystem, that do not exist on the new one?
> 
> Thanks!
>  

You could try   diff -r /newdisk /olddisk

or you could install the Windows program 'Beyond Compare' in Wine :)

I don't really know, but it's not beyond the realm of possibility
for ext4 overhead to be the cause of the difference.  And, again,
lacking much understanding of ext4, it's possible that differences
in disk block allocation might explain the difference.

Compare the two directories.

Hopefully, someone who actually knows more filesystem details will
respond and provide more authoritative information.
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Re: IDE controller card problem

2010-05-05 Thread D Wyatt
On 5/5/2010 6:46 PM, Alan Cox wrote:
>> Can anyone suggest a path to getting the DVD burner working in
>> Fedora with this controller card?
> 
> Some VT6410 setups work, some don't. I've no idea why and for a long time
> we couldn't get the data sheet either. With that some debugging got done
> I don't think we have a useful answer.
> 
> An lspci -vvxxx (as root) and the boot dmesg would be of interest.
> 
> Alan
> 

What I hope to be the relevant portion of 'lspci -vvxxx' output:

04:01.0 RAID bus controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6410 ATA133 RAID
controller (rev 06)
Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6410 ATA133 RAID controller
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
SERR-  Link[LNKA] -> GSI 11 (level, low) ->
IRQ 11
scsi4 : pata_via
scsi5 : pata_via
ata5: PATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xec00 ctl 0xe880 bmdma 0xe400 irq 11
ata6: PATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xe800 ctl 0xe480 bmdma 0xe408 irq 11
i801_smbus :00:1f.3: PCI INT B -> Link[LNKD] -> GSI 11 (level, low)
-> IRQ 11


If more context is needed, please let me know.

Thank you for your response ...
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Re: IDE controller card problem

2010-05-05 Thread D Wyatt
On 5/5/2010 5:52 PM, Mikkel wrote:
> On 05/05/2010 05:30 PM, D Wyatt wrote:
>> The mobo in my P4 pc died last week so my P4 became a Core2 Duo.
>>
>> The new mobo only has one PATA channel but the PC has 3 IDE drives.
>> I installed an ATA133 controller card (VIA vt6410) and connected
>> it to the IDE dvd-burner.  The two IDE HD's are connected to the
>> single IDE channel on the mobo.
>>
>> This is a multi-boot pc with fc7, fc11 and WinXP, and I could
>> still boot into fc11 and XP after the hardware replacement.
>>
>> When I boot into XP, the DVD burner attached to the VIA
>> controller is fully functional.
>>
>> But when booted into fc11, the dvd drive can't be seen.  The
>> pata_via driver seems to be loaded and entries in dmesg suggest
>> that the VIA controller is recognized.  Device Manager in KDE
>> shows:
>>
>> PCI Bridge{82801 PCI Bridge - Intel}
>>   RAID Controller {VT6410 ATA133 - VIA Technologies}
>> SCSI Host Adapter
>> SCSI Host Adapter
>>
>> lspci lists the controller:
>>
>>   04:01.0 RAID bus controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6410 ATA133
>>  RAID controller (rev 06)
>>
>> I've upgraded from fc11 to fc12 (32-bit) and the kernel is now
>> 2.6.32.11-99.fc11.686.  The DVD burner remains invisible.
>>
>> Can anyone suggest a path to getting the DVD burner working in
>> Fedora with this controller card?
>>
>>
>> Regards and thanks in advance for any help you can offer
>
> The first thing I would check is to see if the DVD burner was
> detected as a new drive, and the /dev/cdrom /dev/dvd, etc are not
> being created. Udev remembers the attached DVD drives, and probably
> thinks that because the drive is on a new controller it is a new
> drive. Check the /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-cd.rules file, and
> see if it lists more then one CD/DVD device. If so, you can either
> edit the file, or delete it and let it be re-created on the next boot.
> 
> As a quick check to see if the DVD drive is being seen by the
> system, put a data disk in the drive and try, as root, to mount it.
> 
> mkdir /mnt/cd
> mount /dev/sr0 /mnt/cd
> 
> Mikkel
> 
To expand on the initial info, I actually have an additional SATA
DVD drive in addition to the IDE one - i needed it during the upgrade
and for some additional installs.  It is a cheap LG, and after it
failed burning 2 dual layer dvd's on Verbatim media, it became a
priority to get the Sony Optiarc (IDE) drive working (it never fails
with the same media).

Looking at the 70-persistent-cd.rules file, apparently at some point
it saw the IDE DVD drive:

# DVD_RW_AD-7200A (pci-:00:1f.1-scsi-1:0:0:0)
ENV{ID_CDROM}=="?*", ENV{ID_PATH}=="pci-:00:1f.1-scsi-1:0:0:0",
SYMLINK+="cdrom", ENV{GENERATED}="1"
ENV{ID_CDROM}=="?*", ENV{ID_PATH}=="pci-:00:1f.1-scsi-1:0:0:0",
SYMLINK+="cdrw", ENV{GENERATED}="1"
ENV{ID_CDROM}=="?*", ENV{ID_PATH}=="pci-:00:1f.1-scsi-1:0:0:0",
SYMLINK+="dvd", ENV{GENERATED}="1"
ENV{ID_CDROM}=="?*", ENV{ID_PATH}=="pci-:00:1f.1-scsi-1:0:0:0",
SYMLINK+="dvdrw", ENV{GENERATED}="1"

# DVDRAM_GH22NS40 (pci-:00:1f.2-scsi-1:0:0:0)
SUBSYSTEM=="block", ENV{ID_CDROM}=="?*",
ENV{ID_PATH}=="pci-:00:1f.2-scsi-1:0:0:0", SYMLINK+="cdrom2",
ENV{GENERATED}="1"
SUBSYSTEM=="block", ENV{ID_CDROM}=="?*",
ENV{ID_PATH}=="pci-:00:1f.2-scsi-1:0:0:0", SYMLINK+="cdrw2",
ENV{GENERATED}="1"
SUBSYSTEM=="block", ENV{ID_CDROM}=="?*",
ENV{ID_PATH}=="pci-:00:1f.2-scsi-1:0:0:0", SYMLINK+="dvd2",
ENV{GENERATED}="1"
SUBSYSTEM=="block", ENV{ID_CDROM}=="?*",
ENV{ID_PATH}=="pci-:00:1f.2-scsi-1:0:0:0", SYMLINK+="dvdrw2",
ENV{GENERATED}="1"

I removed the udev file and rebooted, but only the LG GH22NS40
entry was regenerated.

There is a /dev/sr0 and associated dev files for the LG drive, but
no others that I can see (i.e. no /dev/sr1).

I've also tried adding 'noapic' to the kernel boot line, to no
observable effect.

Thanks for your response





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IDE controller card problem

2010-05-05 Thread D Wyatt
The mobo in my P4 pc died last week so my P4 became a Core2 Duo.

The new mobo only has one PATA channel but the PC has 3 IDE drives.
I installed an ATA133 controller card (VIA vt6410) and connected
it to the IDE dvd-burner.  The two IDE HD's are connected to the
single IDE channel on the mobo.

This is a multi-boot pc with fc7, fc11 and WinXP, and I could
still boot into fc11 and XP after the hardware replacement.

When I boot into XP, the DVD burner attached to the VIA
controller is fully functional.

But when booted into fc11, the dvd drive can't be seen.  The
pata_via driver seems to be loaded and entries in dmesg suggest
that the VIA controller is recognized.  Device Manager in KDE
shows:

PCI Bridge{82801 PCI Bridge - Intel}
  RAID Controller {VT6410 ATA133 - VIA Technologies}
SCSI Host Adapter
SCSI Host Adapter

lspci lists the controller:

  04:01.0 RAID bus controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6410 ATA133
 RAID controller (rev 06)

I've upgraded from fc11 to fc12 (32-bit) and the kernel is now
2.6.32.11-99.fc11.686.  The DVD burner remains invisible.

Can anyone suggest a path to getting the DVD burner working in
Fedora with this controller card?


Regards and thanks in advance for any help you can offer
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