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iromeister

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Registered: 2008-10-02

Posts: 18

[solved] k3b does not recognize optical drive, even with hal running

Hi all,

I just did a clean install on my new SSD, everything works just fine except one thing at the moment: When I start k3b it says it doesn't recognize any optical drive. It also claims that missing hal is the reason. But after installing and starting hal it still says the same.
I read on k3b's homepage that there's a new build switch K3B_ENABLE_HAL_SUPPORT - this should be disabled by default in Arch today, shouldn't it?

Ouch! doesn't have anything to do with hal, I was just dumb, at the moment there IS no optical drive in my laptop but the secondary battery... shame on me!

Last edited by iromeister (2013-11-15 11:16:56)

poliveira

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Registered: 2014-01-07

Posts: 11

Re: [solved] k3b does not recognize optical drive, even with hal running

I have this same problem when I start k3b.

I have installed cdrdao, cdrtools and dvd+rw-tools as dependencies for k3b, I have created burning group and set that settings on k3b "modify permissions", but something is not working as it's supposed, because any device is found:

ll /dev | grep sr0
or
ll /dev | grep cdrom

and no results, so my assumption its that some daemon that should be listening for changes on devices is not working... I assume that could be something with HAL daemon ( that I already have tried and no success) or other...

Screenshots:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/141 … dialog.png
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/141 … ttings.png

I have read that the problem could be related to KDE (that's my desktop environment) - https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/24643

PS: my optical DVD drive is external

EDIT: I saw that this post is one year old, I'm trying to delete this post, but I can't!

Last edited by poliveira (2014-01-19 20:13:04)