Subj : Hello?
To   : David Drummond
From : Vid Strpic
Date : Sat Oct 14 2000 08:02 pm

-=> David Drummond said unto Martin <=-

 JF>>         Actually, I don't have any real questions about OBSD except
 JF>> to wonder why it works with my CD-ROM drive and none of the current
 JF>> flavours of Linux will.
 DD>> What brand/model/interface is the CD drive? And which particular
 DD>> Linux flavours have you tried?
 VS>  Erm, you meant to say 'which kernel drivers'?    :)
 DD> Nope - he said "none of the current flavours". I wondered which of the
 DD> "current flavours" he'd actually tried. Does he have access to EVERY
 DD> ONE of them? I use Slackware (7), and I've yet to have it not recognise
 DD> a CDROM.

 Well, all flavors use the same kernel .... with exceptions :>>
 One really should see how the SuSe-supplied kernel looks (source, of
 course).  Lots of patches, lots of nice ones, makes a 2.2.x really
 usable :)

 VS>  I've never seen a CD drive which didn't work with Linux, and all
 VS> modern ones are either ATAPI or SCSI, which work well with vanilla
 VS> kernels in any distribution.
 DD> Vanilla kernels - as long as you choose a SCSI kernel when it's a SCSI
 DD> CDROM.

 I hate vanilla kernels :)  In Linux, I always compile my own, and I have
 yet to learn how to do the same under *BSD :(

 VS>  No, I didn't mean any flame, I'm just very interested.
 DD> :-)

 ;-)


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