Re: [opensuse] 10.3, Why is my CD ROM not showing?

2007-11-26 Thread G T Smith
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Don Raboud wrote: On Saturday 24 November 2007 10:56, Constant Brouerius van nidek wrote: /usr/sbin/hwinfo | grep cdrom err... what !? surprised no-one picked this up... /usr/sbin/hwinfo --cdrom | less as root should provide something a little

[opensuse] 10.3, Why is my CD ROM not showing?

2007-11-24 Thread Constant Brouerius van nidek
Have changed now completely to 10.3 and was happy until I wanted to burn an copy of the Opensuse 10.3 life for a friend. K3B told me that there seems to be no carom drive installed. Looking further into the problem I also found that an inserted CD or DVD did not show up with the well known

Re: [opensuse] 10.3, Why is my CD ROM not showing?

2007-11-24 Thread Don Raboud
On Saturday 24 November 2007 09:17, Constant Brouerius van nidek wrote: Have changed now completely to 10.3 and was happy until I wanted to burn an copy of the Opensuse 10.3 life for a friend. K3B told me that there seems to be no carom drive installed. Looking further into the problem I also

Re: [opensuse] 10.3, Why is my CD ROM not showing?

2007-11-24 Thread Thierry de Coulon
On Saturday 24 November 2007, Constant Brouerius van nidek wrote: Have changed now completely to 10.3 and was happy until I wanted to burn an copy of the Opensuse 10.3 life for a friend. K3B told me that there seems to be no carom drive installed. Looking further into the problem I also found

Re: [opensuse] 10.3, Why is my CD ROM not showing?

2007-11-24 Thread Kevin Donnelly
On Saturday 24 November 2007 16:17, Constant Brouerius van nidek wrote: Could somebody see me through my search for my CD ROM drive? I'm not running 10.3, but I know that there must be some sort of bug in 10.2 (perhaps only exposed as a result of an update of some app) which means that the CD

Re: [opensuse] 10.3, Why is my CD ROM not showing?

2007-11-24 Thread Philippe Landau
Kevin Donnelly wrote: LOL - this just happened to me! Before beginning this post, I'd put a CD in to rip, and I was told there was no CDROM attached! I ran the above, and the rip works fine. Definitely a bug somewhere, and a very annoying one too. Suse just doesn't like your music :-)

Re: [opensuse] 10.3, Why is my CD ROM not showing?

2007-11-24 Thread Constant Brouerius van nidek
On Saturday 24 November 2007 23:57:51 Don Raboud wrote: /usr/sbin/hwinfo | grep cdrom Thanks for this idea. I ran hwinfo without grep and overlooked what it said about the cdrom. No idea what it means but there will be certainly somebody more knowledgeable on the list ;). When I reboot whit a

Re: [opensuse] 10.3, Why is my CD ROM not showing?

2007-11-24 Thread Don Raboud
On Saturday 24 November 2007 10:56, Constant Brouerius van nidek wrote: /usr/sbin/hwinfo | grep cdrom probe = 0x138fc4aa17fff9fffe (+memory +pci +isapnp +net +floppy +misc +misc.serial +misc.par +misc.floppy +serial +cpu +bios +monitor +mouse +scsi +usb -usb.mods +modem +modem.usb

Re: [opensuse] 10.3, Why is my CD ROM not showing?

2007-11-24 Thread Peter Van Lone
On Nov 24, 2007 12:22 PM, Don Raboud [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That looks strange. Are you running the 2.6.22.12-0.1-default kernel (uname -r)? What happens if you run the same command as root? Did you try Kevin's suggestion? I have to jump in here: I have had the same issues as the OP, but

Re: [opensuse] 10.3, Why is my CD ROM not showing?

2007-11-24 Thread Don Raboud
On Saturday 24 November 2007 12:16, Peter Van Lone wrote: I have to jump in here: I have had the same issues as the OP, but with mutliple versions of suse. My first version was 9.3, installed on an ASUS based clone notebook. Then SLED on the same notebook, then SLED on an HP nw8440 notebook

Re: [opensuse] 10.3, Why is my CD ROM not showing?

2007-11-24 Thread d_garbage
On Sat, 24 Nov 2007 16:17:00 -, Constant Brouerius van nidek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looking into the hardware list of Yast I did not find any trace of a CD/DVD ROM. I know I have used the DVD to install 10.3 and I know that everything worked fine as I was burning my first copy of

Re: [opensuse] 10.3, Why is my CD ROM not showing?

2007-11-24 Thread Constant Brouerius van nidek
On Saturday 24 November 2007 23:46:06 d_garbage wrote: On Sat, 24 Nov 2007 16:17:00 -, Constant Brouerius van nidek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looking into the hardware list of Yast I did not find any trace of a CD/DVD ROM. I know I have used the DVD to install 10.3 and I know that