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 1OupPp-0006xC-42 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 12 Sep 2010 16:28:29 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 68C7AE0849; Sun, 12 Sep 2010 16:27:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp2-g21.free.fr (smtp2-g21.free.fr [212.27.42.2]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E4AAE0849 for ; Sun, 12 Sep 2010 16:27:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from UNKNOWN (unknown [172.20.243.135]) by smtp2-g21.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 669D24B009B for ; Sun, 12 Sep 2010 18:27:37 +0200 (CEST) Received: by UNKNOWN (Postfix, from userid 0) id F3A3F87F6B96D; Sun, 12 Sep 2010 18:27:36 +0200 (CEST) Received: from ([88.176.244.27]) by imp.free.fr (IMP) with HTTP for ; Sun, 12 Sep 2010 18:27:36 +0200 Message-ID: <1284308856.4c8cff78d7d6d@imp.free.fr> Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2010 18:27:36 +0200 From: alain.didierjean@free.fr To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] undetected DVD r/w device SOLVED References: <1283763300.4c84ac640b3cc@imp.free.fr> <201009111310.49268.stephane@22decembre.eu> <1284220889.4c8ba7d96beea@imp.free.fr> <201009111850.05682.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <1284228922.4c8bc73a8b5cd@imp.free.fr> In-Reply-To: <1284228922.4c8bc73a8b5cd@imp.free.fr> 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: 7d900059-4396-4c16-b8ed-7254190880a5 X-Archives-Hash: 92f846f032376b86b9736d2232ca42e8 Selon alain.didierjean@free.fr: > Selon Mick : > > > On Saturday 11 September 2010 17:01:29 alain.didierjean@free.fr wrote= : > > > Selon St=C3=A9phane Guedon : > > > > Le Monday 06 September 2010 17:11:17, alain.didierjean@free.fr a = =E9crit > : > > > > > Selon Stroller : > > > > > > On 6 Sep 2010, at 09:55, alain.didierjean@free.fr wrote: > > > > > > > For some unknown reason, my DVD r/w device is not detected = as > such > > > > So, you're not using the latest drivers (scsi emultation of ata h= dd)... > > > > > > > I use <*> ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support (DEPRECATED) ---> in Device Dr= ivers > as > > > I've done in the past, and it used to work fine > > > > Deselect that which is deprecated and will be removed soon and select= the > > appropriate SCSI drivers for your drives. There's been a few message= s on > > this > > list explaining how to go about it. > > Done. Works both for cdrom unit and old IDE disk, whch now are know as = sr0 > (ex hda) and sdc (wax hdc). cdrecord --checkdrive says > But that silly 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 findi= ng > devices. > and on the terminal Finally solved, a matter of permissions for cdrecord and cdrdao, as expla= ined in /usr/share/doc/k3b-2.0.0/PERMISSIONS.bz2. I've been fooled by this stupid= error message. Thanks to all who helped, -- ~adj~