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Installed arch on thinkpad T60 (12 / 2006 model with i945 ich7 chipset)
There is a cdrw + dvdrom drive in it
In gentoo there are problems with support of the drive too. It works with the lagacy ATA driver (and seen as /dev/hda) and does not work with the newer combined sata + ide driver (the one that recognizes ide drives as /dev/sda and not hda)
How do I make it work here in arch ?
Work = as burner. It allways works normally as cdrom and I did not test it as dvd
The stuff in /dev beginning with cd is
bash-3.2$ cat /dev/cd
cd/ cdrom cdrom0 cdrw cdrw0
bash-3.2$ cat /dev/cd/
cdrom-sr0 cdrw-sr0 dvd-sr0
When I add any of them to K3B it does not find a cd writing device there
When I open K3B there is an error of no burners found
Last edited by 11010010110 (2008-05-03 10:19:54)
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Post output of the following commands:
$ ls -l /dev/cd* /dev/sr*
$ groups
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thanks. problem understood and fixed
solution : edit /etc/group and add the user to optical
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thanks. problem understood and fixed
solution : edit /etc/group and add the user to optical
NO!
do not add the ine in /etc/group.
use
# usermod -aG optical <user-login-name>
e.g.
usermod -aG optical fred
You will need to logout and back in from X (kde or whatever). Closing and opening another terminal whilst still in the same kdesession, will not work.
Last edited by keratos (2008-05-03 10:39:53)
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Of course all instances of the user should log off
Does this command do anything other than updating the group file ?
I allways manage groups this way and did not find any problems
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Thats a good question.
In the old unix days, it was the only way to add someone to a group. Linux takes a different view and provides command interfaces to do the job (usermod, groupmod etc). All distros take this strategy, and with possibly different commands to do the job, but quite what the ratioanle for this is - HA!, I dont bloody know!!!
Good question.
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Having a command to do something allows you to automate stuff (scripts etc)
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yes, but its not hard to automate the addition of a line in /etc/group ,
is it!
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