On Tuesday 28 Dec 2004 13:21, Henry F Fourie wrote: > Hi, > > I did a standard Fedora Core 2 install. All was working good except my > sound card. Then used up2date to update my system and downloaded the > 2.6.9-1.6_FC2smp kernal. I installed teh RPM and then rebooted my > machine. when it came up Kudzu ran and picked up my sound card. After > logging in as the normal user and as root, the DVD drive is missing. I > can burn onto disks using K3B, but I cannot find my DVD drive under the > "Computer" section. > > Can anyone shed some light on this for me... > > Henry You need to create a symbolic link under /dev pointing to the dvd drive. Quite probably its also your CDROM drive if you have a dual-purpose drive. Assuming your drive is /dev/hda # ln -s /dev/dvd /dev/hda TD