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adomas

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Registered: 2011-01-05

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[SOLVED] k3b does not detect optical drive

Hello,
I am running Arch Linux x86_64 with recent updates. I have k3b 2.0.3 and when I launch it I get message that it does not detect my optical drive, and I need hal daemon. I checked, udev is running, node in dev /dev/sr0 has root.optical, my user is in optical group. How do I fix this? I want to burn BluRay disk, maybe k3b even does not support it? And is there a better tool for optical discs than k3b? I use KDE 4 so Qt tool would be nice

Last edited by adomas (2015-01-09 17:34:05)

Lone_Wolf

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Re: [SOLVED] k3b does not detect optical drive

K3b can handle blu ray drives.

K3b hasn't needed HAL support for years, maybe there's a permission error, please post ls -l /dev/sr0

it should look similar to this :

$ ls -l /dev/sr0
brw-rw---- 1 root optical 11, 0  8 jan 09:49 /dev/sr0
$

Another possibility is you are missing some optional dependency, please post the output of pacman -Qi k3b

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adomas

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From: Berlin, Germany

Registered: 2011-01-05

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Re: [SOLVED] k3b does not detect optical drive

[EDIT] I think problem is solved. Not sure how, but after reboot it works now

Thank you for you reply, Lone_Wolf

Permissions seems to be ok:

[adomas@voidbox ~]$ ls -l /dev/sr0 
brw-rw---- 1 root optical 11, 0 Jan  9 21:18 /dev/sr0
[adomas@voidbox ~]$ 

And about dependencies I think I have what I need:

[root@voidbox adomas]# pacman -Qi k3b
Name           : k3b
Version        : 1:2.0.3a-1
Description    : Feature-rich and easy to handle CD burning application
Architecture   : x86_64
URL            : http://sourceforge.net/projects/k3b/
Licenses       : GPL
Groups         : None
Provides       : None
Depends On     : kdebase-runtime  libkcddb  libsamplerate  libmad  ffmpeg  taglib  libmpcdec  libdvdread  cdrkit
                 libxft
Optional Deps  : dvd+rw-tools: for dvd burning support [installed]
                 vcdimager: for vcd burning support
                 transcode: for advanced mpeg conversion support
                 emovix: for bootable multimedia cd/dvd support
                 cdrdao: for disk-at-once (DAO) mode support [installed]
                 cdparanoia: for cd ripping support
Required By    : None
Optional For   : None
Conflicts With : None
Replaces       : None
Installed Size :  33.81 MiB
Packager       : Eric Belanger <eric@archlinux.org>
Build Date     : Thu 06 Nov 2014 05:21:31 AM EET
Install Date   : Wed 07 Jan 2015 07:28:57 PM EET
Install Reason : Explicitly installed
Install Script : Yes
Validated By   : Signature

[root@voidbox adomas]# 

What else can be a problem? By the way may optical drive is external, connected via USB, if it makes any difference.

Last edited by adomas (2015-01-09 17:33:50)