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elnigno

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Registered: 2011-02-09

Posts: 10

[CLOSED] CD/DVDs not recognized (hal-less KDE)

Hello everyone,
after the last system upgrade last week CDs and DVDs are not recognized when I insert them in the drive.
I'm running hal-less KDE 4.6 with udisks installed.
I removed hal after the upgrade, however the drive could not recognize the disks even when hal was running.

I searched the forum but haven't found any discussion reporting the very same problem.

Can anyone help me to debug this?
Thanks!

Last edited by elnigno (2011-02-22 12:43:43)

Primoz

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From: Ljubljana-Slovena-EU

Registered: 2009-03-04

Posts: 688

Re: [CLOSED] CD/DVDs not recognized (hal-less KDE)

I had the same / similar problem. Just that given that I build my own kernel I thought this was what was causing it. That's why I rebuilded the kernel and enabled ISO and UDF modules in Filesystems. If you're using the standard kernel I have no idea what could be the problem.

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elnigno

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Registered: 2011-02-09

Posts: 10

Re: [CLOSED] CD/DVDs not recognized (hal-less KDE)

Thanks for the reply, however I indeed use the standard kernel.

To provide more information, other devices (External HDD, USB pendrives, SD cards) are recognized and mounted as before, with no problems.

elnigno

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Registered: 2011-02-09

Posts: 10

Re: [CLOSED] CD/DVDs not recognized (hal-less KDE)

I investigated a little more, and in /dev there is no cdrom, dvd, dvdrw, sr0, hdd or any other possible reference to the drive.

Could it be a udev issue?

elnigno

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Registered: 2011-02-09

Posts: 10

Re: [CLOSED] CD/DVDs not recognized (hal-less KDE)

I'll mark the discussion as closed, since I found out the the problem is not causes by configuration or by Arch in general: something happened and the drive is not even recognized in the BIOS!