Re: U-Stu Karmic can't find CD/DVD drive

2010-02-06 Thread mark
Hi Paul, On 06/02/10 06:25, Paul DeShaw wrote: > Hi, > I got a message saying that report is too long to post to the list; can > you give me something specific I can exerpt for you? > > --Paul If you send the report to me off-list, I'll see what I can do. If there's anything that other people mi

Re: U-Stu Karmic can't find CD/DVD drive

2010-02-05 Thread Paul DeShaw
On Wed, 03 Feb 2010, mark wrote: > > Please can you give us some more info by doing this in a terminal: > > sudo su (type your password) > lshw >report > lspci >>report > lsusb >>report(only if your CD drive is on a USB connection) > lsmod >>report > exit (gets you out o

Re: U-Stu Karmic can't find CD/DVD drive

2010-02-04 Thread mark
On 04/02/10 05:39, Paul DeShaw wrote: > I can post the entire report if you'd like, but I > prefer not to post something so long. Is there anything specific I > should look for to pull out? OK, try this first: lsmod |grep ata_piix If that gives you no output, that'll tell you if you've not got th

Re: U-Stu Karmic can't find CD/DVD drive

2010-02-03 Thread Paul DeShaw
> On Wed, 03 Feb 2010, mark wrote: > > Please can you give us some more info by doing this in a terminal: > > sudo su (type your password) > lshw >report > lspci >>report > lsusb >>report(only if your CD drive is on a USB connection) > lsmod >>report > exit (gets you o

Re: U-Stu Karmic can't find CD/DVD drive

2010-02-03 Thread mark
Hello Paul I can't promise anything, but I might be able to help. I had a similar problem once, caused by a system not loading the ata_piix module. Please can you give us some more info by doing this in a terminal: sudo su (type your password) lshw >report lspci >>report lsusb >>report

U-Stu Karmic can't find CD/DVD drive

2010-02-02 Thread Paul DeShaw
Greetings, I finally upgraded from Hardy about a month or two ago. I now have a multimedia content creation system that cannot read or write optical media. I consider this sub-optimal. When I go to Places>cdrom0, a window pops up that says: *Unable to mount cdrom0 *mount: special device dev/sc