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Mr Green

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No dvd drive in 2.6.25 [Solved!]

I had to use an ide to sata converter on my dvd drive and now its working again sr0 is created along with all the usual suspects......

Makes me wonder if an ide hard drive is not going to work on my system

A hardware solution to a software problem, not really Arches fault

Hope it helps someone else with the same problem

MrG

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Re: No dvd drive in 2.6.25 [Solved!]

*Boing

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Re: No dvd drive in 2.6.25 [Solved!]

Still no dvd drive in 2.6.25 ... sr0 does not get created loaded sr_mod still nothing works fine in 2.6.24 no idea whats changed

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Re: No dvd drive in 2.6.25 [Solved!]

does dmesg have something to say about that ?

Mr Green

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Re: No dvd drive in 2.6.25 [Solved!]

dmesg | grep sr
Driver 'sr' needs updating - please use bus_type methods

Emmm does that help :-)

A quick google shows message is harmless, thing is device node cdrom and sr0 do not get created so I thought it was a mkinitcpio problem I am running latest kernel at the moment.

I do not use dvd drive that often but of course lateley I wanted to burn some iso's and now it does not work

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Re: No dvd drive in 2.6.25 [Solved!]

die grep die! long version please

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Re: No dvd drive in 2.6.25 [Solved!]

http://mr-green.net/files/dmesg

Sorry lol here you go.....

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Re: No dvd drive in 2.6.25 [Solved!]

huh can't see anything about your cd/dvd drive here... and it's still working fine with 2.6.24, correct?

Mr Green

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Re: No dvd drive in 2.6.25 [Solved!]

Yeah in 2.6.24 no problem at all..... I downloaded old kernel package so I can roll back .... odd no one else is having this problem [other than mounting loop and burning!]

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Re: No dvd drive in 2.6.25 [Solved!]

any noticeable difference between lsmod in 2.6.24 and lsmod in 2.6.25 ?

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Re: No dvd drive in 2.6.25 [Solved!]

well yes but very hard to tell what the problem is, I might stick with 2.6.25 for the moment..... still feel its mkinitcpio that the problem missing some module

I'm loading sr_mod in modues in rc.conf

Will keep looking thanks for your help :-)

MrG

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Re: No dvd drive in 2.6.25 [Solved!]

well yes but very hard to tell what the problem is, I might stick with 2.6.25 for the moment..... still feel its mkinitcpio that the problem missing some module

I'm loading sr_mod in modues in rc.conf

what i meant is: do you have more or less modules loaded if you compare the result lsmod will give you in 2.6.24 and 2.6.25 ? That may help to identify who is vandalizing your dvd-rom driver.

Will keep looking thanks for your help :-)

well, not really helpful atm :-)

Mr Green

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Re: No dvd drive in 2.6.25 [Solved!]

Ok, will reload old kernel, and see if I can figure out whats happening ....

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Re: No dvd drive in 2.6.25 [Solved!]

I have exactly the same problem ..

This is really annoying ..

Mr Green

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Re: No dvd drive in 2.6.25 [Solved!]

I may roll back to 2.6.24 but it will break other modules nvidia etc...... at the moment I do not need drive [and have got an external one if required!]

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Re: No dvd drive in 2.6.25 [Solved!]

ok loaded 2.6.24 and dvd drive works

http://mr-green.net/files/

you will find newkernel modules from 2.6.25 and old modules from 2.6.24 ....

Hope someone can see the problem

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Re: No dvd drive in 2.6.25 [Solved!]

#modprobe sr_mod ?

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Re: No dvd drive in 2.6.25 [Solved!]

sr_mod                 15300  0 
cdrom                  33952  1 sr_mod
scsi_mod               92204  4 sg,sr_mod,sd_mod,libata

Already there, loaded in rc.conf

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Re: No dvd drive in 2.6.25 [Solved!]

sr_mod                 15300  0 
cdrom                  33952  1 sr_mod
scsi_mod               92204  4 sg,sr_mod,sd_mod,libata

Already there, loaded in rc.conf

it's not in your newkernel file

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Re: No dvd drive in 2.6.25 [Solved!]

no I know ..... I loaded it in rc.conf ages ago to check it hehe

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Re: No dvd drive in 2.6.25 [Solved!]

hmm ok, well, let me find that word that can describe perfectly my current state of mind... ok got it: confused, i think my mind is confused now, at this very precise moment... oh btw, it's loaded or not :-P ?

Mr Green

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Re: No dvd drive in 2.6.25 [Solved!]

No what I did was when it first mentioned that it was missing from lsmod I added module to rc.conf and rebooted but it still does not work

Did not want to confuse you :-)

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Re: No dvd drive in 2.6.25 [Solved!]

hello,

just to make shure:

do you have hal in your deamons?

steff

Mr Green

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Re: No dvd drive in 2.6.25 [Solved!]

[ etc ] > more rc.conf | grep hal
DAEMONS=( @syslog-ng @hal @dbus @network @netfs @sshd @crond @gdm @alsa bluetooth @cups @sensors)

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Re: No dvd drive in 2.6.25 [Solved!]

random remark: scsi_mod wasn't there before and it's 'used by' sr_mod...