Install Problems

["Rupert Dance" <rdance inc-net com>]

Hi,

I am having trouble installing my CD-ROM drivers and other applications. I was told that the Errata had information about Back Pack CD-ROM's and I have repeated their instructions which didn't work completely:

>Solution:
>           (10-Jun-1997) Until a fix is available, users can manually
>create a /dev/bpcd device using the following commands: 
>
>                  su
>                  mknod /dev/bpcd b 41 0
>                  chown root:disk /dev/bpcd
>                  chmod 660 /dev/bpcd
>
>           Users can then mount the BackPack CD-ROM using: 
>
>                  mount -t iso9660 /dev/bpcd /cdrom


 I followed the instructions but when I tried to mount the device I got an error 
message that it couldn't mount the device and try "insmod device".

So I switched to /lib/modules/2.0.30/cdrom and tried "insmod bpcd.o". This 
would not work so I tried some of the others like sbpcd.o but none of these
 worked. Finally I tried insmod mcdx.o and then bpcd.o again. I rebooted many
 times and everytime I had to do something similar to this. "insmod bpcd.o" 
would never work the first time. Then I got the message as follows:

bpcd 0.19: found CD-ROM GCD-R560B, ID 11, using port 0x378 in 8 bit mode.
lp: Driver configured but no interfaces found

Then I was able to do the  mount command you gave and I got access to the 
cdrom. However when it mounted I get some errors. The message is as follows:

"mount: block device /dev/bpcd is write protected, mounting read only"
"bpcd: bp_completion (close door): status:51 erro:60"

So my questions are the following:

1. How to I properly insmod the driver? Do I need to rebuild the kernel and if so
 how do I load the files from the CD needed for this? I tried to rebuild the kernel 
and it said I did not have the necessary files loaded.
2.  How do I get the CD-ROM to mount automatically so that I don't have to go 
through all this each time I reboot?
3. How do I eliminate the message : lp: Driver configured but no interfaces 
found
4. How to I cure the message: "bpcd: bp_completion (close door): status:51 
error:60"?  I am allowed to access the drive but I can't open the drive and put in 
a new CD.

This really leads to my final question which is that I was trying to access the 
CD-ROM so that I could install XFree86 because MetroX didn't not have a driver
 that would work with my laptop.
After I got the CD-ROM to kind of work I was able to install XFree86 after 
removing Metro. They have a video driver listed for my laptop 
(Cirrus Logic GD7548). I had to configure the monitor as a custom and I tried
 carefully to put in the correct refresh rates obtained from Micron and used 
SVGA 800*640 mode since that is what my display is.

When I got done and it said all was OK, I started X with the startx command. 
What I get is a very odd colored screen that is all washed out with nothing 
readable. The Ctrl Alt + and backspace routines would not work and I had to 
do a cold reboot. I went back and tried a few other combinations such as the 
extended SVGA but nothing seemed to work.  I also compared my Xconfig file 
with another Micron Millennia user who had posted his on the Web and had 
been successful in getting X running.

I am hoping that it is something simple and that you can steer me in the right 
direction.

Thanks for all of the help,

Rupert Dance