From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OsXUh-0004C8-PE for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 06 Sep 2010 08:56:09 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 95E63E0769; Mon, 6 Sep 2010 08:55:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp3-g21.free.fr (smtp3-g21.free.fr [212.27.42.3]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6CD6E0769 for ; Mon, 6 Sep 2010 08:55:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from UNKNOWN (unknown [172.20.243.135]) by smtp3-g21.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2839B8180EC for ; Mon, 6 Sep 2010 10:55:00 +0200 (CEST) Received: by UNKNOWN (Postfix, from userid 0) id 2412E81C983E7; Mon, 6 Sep 2010 10:55:00 +0200 (CEST) Received: from ([88.176.244.27]) by imp.free.fr (IMP) with HTTP for ; Mon, 06 Sep 2010 10:55:00 +0200 Message-ID: <1283763300.4c84ac640b3cc@imp.free.fr> Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2010 10:55:00 +0200 From: alain.didierjean@free.fr To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] undetected DVD r/w device Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) 3.2.8 X-Originating-IP: 88.176.244.27 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: fc720375-e1d6-4b75-bf76-f5d1a34e5cec X-Archives-Hash: 6025e796af22d4cd7c6ec024027aca40 For some unknown reason, my DVD r/w device is not detected as such by ude= v: I can mount /dev/hda and read a data CD, but /dev/cdrom is not created at= boot time and k3b returns " No optical drive found. K3b did not find any optical device in your system. Solution : Make sure HAL daemon is running, it is used by K3b for finding devices." Well, hald IS running on my hardened amd64 system and /etc/udev/rules.d c= ontains 70-persistent-cd.rules. Where should I look now to fix the problem ? -- ~adj~