On Saturday 12 November 2005 16:12, Alexis Sukrieh wrote: > Hello, > > I'm experiencing a really strange issue there, with a laptop under a > fresh sid system (installed from scratch two days ago). > > The laptop is an ASUS W3V, the CDROM device is a CDRW/DVD+R writer > combo. > > First of all, the CDROM device works great: I can boot on the Sarge > netinst CDROM, moreover it's well seen in the BIOS. > > Everything looks ok for the hardware: I can open it and when I put a CD > media inside, the device starts cycling it as expected. > > Note that I used to use it for burning CDRWs and DVDs and for reading > CDROM/DVDROM media. It used to work perfcectly. > > Since I had a problem with my hard disk (the partition table got > corrupted during a crash), I had to reinstall a new system. > > I used the Sarge 3.1 netinst CDROM (so I booted on it), then > dist-upgraded to Sid. > > By now, everything looks like I don't have any CDROM device: > > - The first thing I find really weird is that dmesg does not show any > information about my CDROM device. There is simply nothing about it. > > - under udev, I just don't have /dev/hdc, neither the symlink /dev/cdrom > > - under hotplug, I have /dev/hdc but cannot mount any device: "not a > valid block device". Moreover, eject does not work neither: "cannot > open /dev/hdc". > > - cdrecord -scanbus shows nothing. > > All this is true with Debian kernels 2.6.12 and 2.6.14. I also tested a > home-made 2.6.13 kernel and experienced exactly the same. > > I do have listed ide-detect, ide-cd and cdrom in my /etc/modules. > > Now the very strange part: > If I boot on a 2.4.27 Debian kernel, the CDROM is seen, dmesg speaks > about it... > > I'm investigating for more than 2 days now, and I would really welcome > any idea that could help me getting back the device. > > Please CC me as I'm not subscribed to this list. > > Regards. > > -- > Alexis Sukrieh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Did udev get upgraded?, installing with Sarge/kernel won't allow the version of udev in sid to install, should show an error message. Install udev when you have a 2.6.12+ kernel running. -- Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]