PIONEER DVD-ROM DVD-114+Suse 8.2

hello, my Pioneer dvd-rom (dvd-114) doesn't work under Suse linux 8.2. I am not completely new to linux, but still I don't know where to find drivers except for the pioneer website were I didn't find them. Can anyone tell me if it's possible to use my dvd drive and how I should get it working ('what driver, where can I find it, how do I install it?')

windows xp tells about my dvd rom: 'PIONEER DVD-ROM DVD-114' I tried to open the box and look if there was info on a sticker on the drive, but didn't find it. Maybe I can find it by removing the drive, but I thought maybe someone here knows what I should do right away.


Thanks in Advance, a happy Linux user

is the DVD-ROM drive EIDE, IDE,SCSI,etc.,etc.. and do you have support for the device built into your kernel?? you may have to recompile the kernel if support for that particular dvd-rom isn't there..

thanks for the quick reply, i'll check if it's scsi, ide etc. I've heard about recompiling the kernel before (I've been reading about linux for longer than a year now) but I don't know how to do it, and how I could add support for my drive to the kernel. I'll search about the scsi, ide etc thing tomorrow. Thanks.

dmesg | grep cdrom


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Originally Posted by Kriss

dmesg | grep cdrom


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konsole: dmesg | grep cdrom

no output, just a new line.
su
root password

try again: dmesg | grep cdrom

just a new line, no output. I'm now going to check if the bios can give me information on my DVD-rom drive..

edit:

when entering the BIOS setup: > Secondary IDE Master [PIONEER DVD-ROM DVD-]

when the computer is loading: 'ATAPI PIONEER.....' so it's atapi and IDE.

try to grep ATAPI or PIONEER from dmesg then, and see what device its put into. The you can just put a line in fstab, and your cdrom should work

output:

hdc: PIONEER DVD-ROM DVD-114, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive

edit: I don't know what fstab is.. bash: fstab: command not found

i'll search for it now...

edit: /etc/fstab gonna edit that file in a text editor now.. I'll ask again if I can't figure out how to do it. Thanks very much :)

sorry, I don't understand how to do it. Were do I put it in the file?

put something like this in your fstab file:

/dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0

thank you very much! It works now :)