[TriLUG] [Xmas present] CD-RW - DVD-ROM Combo. Do they work?

[Sinner from the Prairy]

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All,

Merry Xmas / Happy Holidays / Belated Happy Hannukah!

Xmas is about to hit me in the face (or so to speak *grin*). And my 
"Techno Santa" is going to give me a DVD player (internal IDE).

There's one that Techno Santa specialy likes: a DVD-ROM/CD-RW combo unit 
form Samsung (Samsung SM-32, 23x CDR, 10x CDRW, 40x CDROM, 12x DVDROM).

Here there are some questions for you, specialy if you have a similar 
one:

- - Do those combos units work under Linux? 

- - How well do they do CD-RW? And DVD? I have Xine + PLF (penguin 
lberation front).

- - How well do they do DVD? 

- - What does Linux use for DVD reproduction? RAM? CPU? Videcard? I have a 
K6-2-400, 256MB, nVidia TNT2-32MB

I'm fearless, so I don't mind having to spend some time tweaking around 
( have MDK 9.0. I can mess with the Kernel compilation, boot options, 
create entried in the /dev...)


Thanks in advance,



Salut,
Sinner
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