Filed bug #544772: Optical drive not recognized

[Paul DeShaw]

Greetings,

I filed a bug in Launchpad describing problems with my HP optical drive that
stopped being recognized upon upgrading to Karmic.  I am hoping this way to
encourage that this very basic functionality be returned in Lucid.  If you
can contribute to a solution, please do so in Launchpad.

I am not much of a techie, so my description of the problem is probably
lacking needed information.  Here is the text:

<<

I have an HP dvd840 CD/DVD burner which worked in previous versions. This
drive will work to boot a live CD; if I boot generic Ubuntu Karmic from a
USB key I can use the drive normally for playback. I did not test it for
burning.
>From the menu, Places->cdrom0 produces a window with the error: "Unable to
mount cdrom0 Special device /dev/scd0 does not exist" I have perused similar
problems on the forums, asked on the Ubuntu Studio list, and looked in
Launchpad, so far nothing suggested has worked. I have added modules to
/etc/modules--I can't remember what else I tried.

In /etc/fstab, it's listed as
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0

sudo lshw produces no reference to a CD or DVD ROM.

/etc/modules looks like:
loop
lp
rtc
sbp2
libata
ata_piix
piix
ide-generic

I added the last 4 modules in response to suggestions for a fix.>>

Feel free to comment, especially in Launchpad.

--Paul
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Re: Lucid Beta1 for amd64?

[Dave]

The first link didn't work for me either.
Tried at different times throughout the (Australian) day but only the 
32bit builds were visible.

Resorted to downloading the daily build from Leo's link.

Installed o.k. but in first boot the system got no further than the new 
splash screen.

Rebooted and tried again. Same issue.
Started from the installation DVD in recovery mode but got the same 
issue on starting X from the consol.
Repeated the install to a fresh partition but again got no further than 
the splash screen.


My motivation in trying the Lucid beta was to see if LMMS would run "out 
of the box" after all sorts of issues I have had trying to use it under 
both Hardy and Karmic.


Dave

Eric Hedekar wrote:
The link in the first e-mail seems to work fine for me.  Quite often 
it takes the servers a little bit of time for all the variants to be 
published.


- Eric Hedekar


On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 7:52 PM, Leo > wrote:


On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 5:18 AM, Ian Miller
mailto:gm...@emacs.fastmail.fm>> wrote:


What's happened to the Beta1 release for amd64? I can't see it
here:

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntustudio/releases/lucid/beta-1/

cheers,
ian



can this link work for you?

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntustudio/daily/current/


Leo

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Re: Lucid Beta1 for amd64?

[Eric Hedekar]

The link in the first e-mail seems to work fine for me.  Quite often it
takes the servers a little bit of time for all the variants to be published.

- Eric Hedekar


On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 7:52 PM, Leo  wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 5:18 AM, Ian Miller wrote:
>
>>
>> What's happened to the Beta1 release for amd64? I can't see it here:
>>
>> http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntustudio/releases/lucid/beta-1/
>>
>> cheers,
>> ian
>
>
>
> can this link work for you?
>
> http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntustudio/daily/current/
>
>
> Leo
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Re: Showcase

[Eric Hedekar]

This list has no direct affiliation with the Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase.
I was on the jury and we handed in our shortlist a while back.  Now it's up
to the Community Council to pick winners, so maybe you should e-mail or IRC
someone on the community council if you're in dire need of a status update.

- Eric Hedekar


On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 3:06 PM, teza  wrote:

> Hi everybody, just wondering, any news about the showcase?
>
> Regards
> Teza
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Re: access root terminal ??

[ailo]

Khalid Said wrote:
> when I try the password it gives me the following:
>
> su: Authentication failure
>
> I tried to change the root password from System > Administration > 
> Users and Groups
>
>
>
> ---
>
> Regards,
>
>
su is not enabled by default on Ubuntu.
sudo is, however.
When you want to execute a command as super user you do:
sudo 

If you want to open a program as superuser (which, you rarely do):
gksudo 

for example, this opens the program "nvidia-settings" as super user:
gksudo nvidia-settings

Ubuntu uses "sudo", while other distros, like Fedora might be set to use 
"su", by default.

check out this link:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RootSudo
and this:
https://help.ubuntu.com/

You should also check out:
http://ubuntuforums.org/

Hope it helps..

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