[solved] My Optical Drive doesn't work.

1lj4z1 · 2011-03-25 09:33:05

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)

stlarch · 2011-03-25 09:51:42

Did you add yourself to the optical group? #gpasswd -a yourusername optical

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bohoomil · 2011-03-25 09:57:28

Do you have a /dev/sr0 file? Are you able to mount a CD/DVD the manual way? Are you in a optical group?

1lj4z1 · 2011-03-25 13:17:41

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.

bohoomil · 2011-03-25 14:25:07

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)

1lj4z1 · 2011-03-25 14:44:20

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)

bohoomil · 2011-03-25 14:54:32

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)

1lj4z1 · 2011-03-25 14:56:30

It totally worked thank you very much for your help.

bohoomil · 2011-03-25 15:02:47

Great, I'm glad to read that.

1lj4z1 · 2011-03-25 17:33:57

Now i am a happy arch user

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