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Wow, my system has loads of problems
I've checked the wiki, and tried to fix it, but I've failed....badly.
Does anybody know how to fix this?
NB: There's no mention of a cdrom, or /dev/sr0 or anything in my Fstab, and HAL does see the CD when i take my laptop off of power when it's been on, and vice versa
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We could do with some more information, Window manager you are using? Is Hal/Dbus running, what cd are you trying to mount audio or data?
do you have /dev/sro in /dev?
MrG
Mr Green
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Sorry, forgot that.
KDE4 with Kwin, and Dbus and HAl work perfectly. It's a data CD with a program on it, but it also doesn't work with any other type of CD/DVD. /dev/sr0 is present in /dev
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Assume your user is a member of storage and optical group?
Mr Green
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Yep, nearly every group on the system
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try using pmount in a terminal
Mr Green
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What does dmesg show when you insert / mount the CD?
Maybe it's a DVD and you have a CD-only drive?
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What does dmesg show when you insert / mount the CD?
Maybe it's a DVD and you have a CD-only drive?
Laptop with a DVD Lightscribe drive.
Pmount works though, It'd be good to use it until I manage to get HAL to see that the CD's there when i put it in to the drive, and show up on the KDE device manager
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Still think you should read up wiki for guides on mounting hal etc... and of course search forum
Mr Green
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try find /etc/hal/fdi/information/media-check-disable-storage_model_$YOUR_DEVICE.fdi file,
open it and change
<merge key="storage.media_check_enabled" type="bool">false</merge>
to
<merge key="storage.media_check_enabled" type="bool">true</merge>
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Trust me, i have. The most annoying thing is that when i insert the CD, it nicely spins up and everything, then spins back down and nothing happens
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There's no such thing as a stupid question, but there sure are a lot of inquisitive idiots !
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Managed to get it fix with a combo of suggestions! I used pmount to mount my CD, and that made the *.fdi file that ends up getting found in /etc/hal/information (as Mr Green suggested). Then, i just changed false to true in the file (as benko suggested), restarted, and boom!
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