some progress with debian

[Jude DaShiell]

I managed to get debian to a state where cdrecord recognizes my cd burner. 
I have a goldstaar atapi cd burner and had tried using modconf to install 
sg and ide--scsi and had hdd=ide-scsi as part of the lilo append line. 
That didn't work at all even after having made the devices for the drives. 
So I removed all the scsi stuff from the kernel and ran lilo and rebooted 
the computer.  Then I edited /etc/modules and put those modules in that 
file.  On next reboot drives were recognized and cdrecord -scanbus now 
shows the cd burner along with the zip disk.  Why doing it this way even 
worked at all I don't know.  Now it's time to go and sort out alsa.