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First lets get this straight before it is asked later on down the line. I am a 6 year Linux user and 2 year Arch user. I am currently using xfce4 and thunar as my file manager with thunar-volman installed. This has been a problem for the past year or so. I use my laptop most of the time (also Arch 64 and working like a dream) so I only try fixing it every so often to no avail.
I can put in a CD or a DVD and play them with VLC. Here's the catch: after I eject the CD/DVD and put in another one I can't play it or find it. The first time I put one in I even get an icon on the desktop. I don't think it's reasonable to have to reboot everytime I want to play another DVD (time wasted by constant rebooting is one of the very long list of reasons I don't use Microshaft products). I'm stumped, I can't be the only one, but my forum searches yield no treasures.
Last edited by astrozombie (2010-02-03 01:00:15)
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Did you try with another player (e.g. smplayer) ?
/me wants you to detele this account... please delete it.
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Thanks for trying, however, I posted what I use for a reason. I am using VLC, and I am a minimalist so I don't want a bunch of programs for doing the exact same thing. VLC is the only player for Linux that plays MTS files out of the box, so I'm not interested in switching or adding another.
Anyways, it's irrelevant because as I said before, thunar mounts it correctly the first time I put in a DVD or CD and displays an icon on the desktop for the disk. Therefore the problem is most likely hal related, since this began about the time we switched to hotplugging, and besides this I love hotplugging so I am also not interested in disabling that (who know what problems I'll introduce for my MAC keyboard and webcam if I do that). Yes I've read the hal and dbus wikis.
I can even get a USB CD writer to work with xfburn, however it's a relic and I think that's a sorry work around when I have internal drives that, in theory, work just fine. I wonder if it has anything to do with the drives being IDE when I used the SATA install option on the install disk (I did a fresh install last week) since my hard drives are SATA.
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Thanks, by responding to your response I solved my own problem. It's sort of ghetto, and defies KISS, but I used the PolicyKit.conf file workaround from the hal wiki page since I'm the only user. Copy and paste job, which is really quite sad because Arch has become quite elegant to the point where I don't need workarounds anymore. Hopefully this will be fixed and won't be a problem in the future. Editing config files is one thing but having to create them in there entirety is not inline with KISS. Oh, well, I still love you Arch.
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How the hell do I mark this as solved?
Nevermind.
Last edited by astrozombie (2010-02-03 01:00:31)
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