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Hello, first i should thank the community for the awesome job they've made on arch linux and everything around it.
Secondly, i installed arch linux two days ago, it was my first attempt and it seems to work flawlessly with gnome, compiz, etc. i even managed to master pacman and yaourt.
But i have a little issue my optical doesn't work in gnome, i can't even see it on the devices. (It worked great on the installation). Any ideas?
Last edited by 1lj4z1 (2011-03-25 17:36:20)
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Did you add yourself to the optical group? #gpasswd -a yourusername optical
Last edited by stlarch (2011-03-25 09:58:44)
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Do you have a /dev/sr0 file? Are you able to mount a CD/DVD the manual way? Are you in a optical group?
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I am in the optical group and i do have a /dev/sr0 file, i don't know how to mount it manually since there is nothing in the /media directory.
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OK, so start with creating a mount point, like
sudo mkdir -p /media/dvd
-- and then feed your drive with a disk, and see what happens. (I suppose it will mount it automatically, but lets see...)
Edit: Just in case your system needs a cdrom directory, you can create a symlink to your /media/dvd, like this:
sudo ln -s /media/dvd /media/cdrom
Last edited by bohoomil (2011-03-25 14:27:53)
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Okay, i tried that and it doesn't show any files from the disk. I tried to mount /media/dvd and i got
mount: can't find /media/dvd in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab
Edit: I should probably add them in fstam or mtab?
Last edited by 1lj4z1 (2011-03-25 14:45:09)
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Yes, put this in your fstab:
/dev/cdrom /media/cdrom auto ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0
/dev/dvd /media/dvd auto ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0
Last edited by bohoomil (2011-03-25 15:13:08)
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It totally worked thank you very much for your help.
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Great, I'm glad to read that.
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Now i am a happy arch user
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