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Obliviouse

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Registered: 2008-12-19

Posts: 7

Problem with GNOME, or Nautilus, identifying my drives

Hello there. I have a new setup with arch linux, bearly was able to installl virtually all my drivers. I downloaded a burning software tool to help me record some data to a disk, however when it asked me insert the CD, it notifyied me by saying that there are no drives to read a cd. My current setup with the Disk reading is that AUTOFS automounts the drives due to some earlier issue that I was facing during the installation of arch linux and the drivers. This not only happens with the burning software but aswell as other software that require the recognition of CD/DVD Drives. They list no drives. In addition, i have noticed an odd behaviour. When launching the "Computer" icon on my Desktop, of course the "file system" or HDD icon appears but no CD/DVD rom. This only happens when there aren't any CD/DVD mounted, however, when one is mounted it does displays it as well as in the Desktop. And the oddity is this: when I load nautilus as root ( I know it's dangerous using the root account, but bare with me ), it displays the CD/DVD Rom icon dispite the fact I don't have it mounted, as well as the USB icon, but that's another story,

I have given as many details as possible, hopefully someone can identify a solution to my issue.

Thanks in advance for any comments!

Last edited by Obliviouse (2009-01-08 04:00:26)

pointone

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From: Waterloo, ON

Registered: 2008-02-21

Posts: 379

Re: Problem with GNOME, or Nautilus, identifying my drives

Are you a member of the optical group?

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Obliviouse

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Registered: 2008-12-19

Posts: 7

Re: Problem with GNOME, or Nautilus, identifying my drives

yes:

$ groups
tty disk lp wheel dbus hal network video audio optical floppy storage power users

JoshuaK

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From: Ohio, USA

Registered: 2008-09-13

Posts: 66

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Re: Problem with GNOME, or Nautilus, identifying my drives

is HAL (hardware abstraction layer) running? HAL and FAM (or gamin) have helped some people

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Obliviouse

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Registered: 2008-12-19

Posts: 7

Re: Problem with GNOME, or Nautilus, identifying my drives

yes, a list of my daemons are listed here:

# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
# DAEMONS
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
#
# Daemons to start at boot-up (in this order)
#   - prefix a daemon with a ! to disable it
#   - prefix a daemon with a @ to start it up in the background
#
DAEMONS=(syslog-ng hal fam @network @networkmanager netfs autofs crond 
@cups fglrx @alsa @gdm)

Last edited by Obliviouse (2009-01-09 06:52:49)