[uug] debian...again with some burning questions

[Glen Wagley]

Any of yall that know me have realized that I'm a distro junkie. I'll go 
through three distros a week at times. The funny thing is, I always come 
back to Debian. Even after giving Knoppix a whirl for a good month, I 
nuked it and installed Debian again. Yes, I know Knoppix is pretty much 
the same but when I installed Gnome, the widgets still looked like KDE. 
I could never figure it out so I nuked it. The past few weeks I've been 
giving Mandrake 10 community a whirl. Not bad but not what I want. I 
don't have time for Gentoo (again). So tonight, I think I may grab the 
latest debian installer and install it once again (they finally made 
grub the default boot loader!!). I do have a dilemma though. I can never 
get my cd burner and dvd drives to play nice with debian. I know I'm 
just missing something. I usually let discover handle the symlinks for 
me but then I always have to be root to do anything to the drives. I've 
tried passing kernel parameters in grub but nothing I do ever works 
quite right. I either can't burn or can't watch DVDs. So my question is 
this:
How do I get the kernel to load an ide-scsi module for my burner and 
have just a plain old ide-cd module load for my DVD-ROM so me and the 
kid can watch Toy Story? Should I not worry about discover and just 
handle the symlinks myself? What about the 2.6 kernel and all of this? 
Yes this is long. Yes this is wordy but heck, I haven't posted in 
forever. ;-)
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Glen Wagley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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