Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Daiajo Tibdixious <daiajo@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] dvdrw drive not visible
Date: Mon, 04 May 2009 08:30:00
Message-Id: a4a9bfcb0905032003i26abb9ccj4d7c7422bc466daa@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] dvdrw drive not visible by Drake Donahue
1 On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 12:19 AM, Drake Donahue <donahue95@×××××××.net> wrote:
2 > On Tue, 2009-04-28 at 22:02 +0000, Daiajo Tibdixious wrote:
3 >> When I boot off the live CD there is a /dev/hda /dev/cdrom /dev/cdrw
4 >> /dev/dvd /dev/dvdrw etc & it works just fine.
5 >>
6 >> When I boot off my kernel there are no such devices & I can't use the drive.
7 >>
8 >> This is the same drive as in my old system, which just worked with no
9 >> tweaking before.
10 >>
11 >> Obviously I am missing some driver, yet I have grovelled thru
12 >> menuconfig to no avail.
13 >> Google turns up many similar problems, however none have been helpful.
14 >>
15 >> If I boot off the live cd, is there a way to see what options I need?
16 >>
17 >> The drive shows as "PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-109" on the live cd.
18 >>
19 > if you have evdev support in your kernel, and dbus and hald in the boot
20 > or default run level, your cd/dvd should automount in /media.
21 > If you have gone with the current kernel trend it will be /dev/sr0 (sr_
22 > something anyway) all hard drives will be sd_ and there will be no hd_.
23 > Aliasing will probably allow you to umount /dev/sr0 and then
24 > mount /dev/hda /mnt/cdrom. Easier to go with the flow and leave cd/dvd
25 > out of fstab and up to auto.
26
27 evdev is on in the kernel (INPUT_EVDEV & a USB one).
28 hald is in the defalut run level
29 dbus was installed but not in a run level, I put it in default.
30
31 After starting dbus, putting a disk in the drive does nothing, no
32 /dev/sr*, nothing in dmesg (like there is for USB, which is working),
33 which is the same as before.
34 Nothing in /media either.

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