CDRW and Framebuffer

Two things I've been meaning to sort out ever since I first installed Gentoo: The CDRW and the framebuffer. Although the framebuffer was just because it looks nice and wasn't important.

I don't remember the CDRW being a pain to set up when I installed it on Mandrake, but that was a year and a half ago, and I didn't have to manually reconfigure and rebuild the kernel either. Anyway, both my CDROM and CDRW are treated as SCSI now and they both work the way they're supposed to, so hurray for me. The framebuffer also randomly started working during all this (I played with a few settings before my final recompile of the kernerl), so I set it up to run at 1024x768 and show the fluffy penguin logo. Splendid.

Of course, this has probably all been in vain as I plan on removing the CDRW soon and replacing it with the newer faster one I have sitting around doing nothing, and I plan on removing the CDROM and replacing it with the DVD drive I have lying around ... ah well. It's only half a day wasted.

Bed time now, I think. Although I'll read a little more War of the Worlds, I think. A very good book, and it nicely breaks the monotony of watching the kernel compile for the Nth time.