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On Tuesday 27 November 2007, Joost Roeleveld wrote: |
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> > On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 07:53:40 +0100, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: |
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> >> There is no need to do so. However, a fuse based filesystem for mounting |
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> >> audio CDs exists, see http://castet.matthieu.free.fr/cddfs/. |
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> > |
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> > Oh, thank you all for your input -- I've been a bit obsessed with rails |
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> > and let this go to the back burner a bit. |
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> > However, I did notice that when I click on "CDROM" from nautilus there's |
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> > a message about HAL; again, though, it cannot be a hardware issue as |
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> > these particular discs and drives work in another distro on the same |
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> > machine. |
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> If the discs and drives work on the same machine with a different distro, |
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> then I agree, the hardware should work. |
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> Also, as the /dev/ entries exist and it doesn't complain about that, the |
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> drives are probably detected correctly. |
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> > I believe it to be a driver issue (HAL is a hardware driver? Hardware |
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> > Abstraction Layer? But isn't it more BIOS than OS?). I'll double check |
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> > things with some data discs on the other distro in the next few days and |
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> > do some more googling (and wikipedia-ing). |
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> |
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> Can you also check with datadiscs on the Gentoo installation? |
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> I agree with the others that audio-discs are generally not mountable. |
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> The FUSE-driver for Audio-discs might be installed on your other distro |
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> (Redhat?), but is not installed by default with Gentoo. |
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> > If this sheds any light: |
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> > |
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> > |
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> > arrakis ~ # |
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> > arrakis ~ # dmesg | grep 'cd' |
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> > ehci_hcd 0000:00:03.3: EHCI Host Controller |
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> |
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> <Snipped dmesg-output> |
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> When I do the above command, it only shows me the cd/dvd writer, not the |
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> cdrom drive. |
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> Can you post the full output of "dmesg" after you booted the system? |
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> > I think it's more on shutdown that I notice lotsa weird messages about |
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> > the cdrom drive(s) since futzing with /etc/fstab. |
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> Can you also give us the contents of your "/etc/fstab" file? |
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Haven't followed up all of this thread, but it may well be a clash between |
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hald/dbus trying to control your media devices and your fstab. Entries in |
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the latter are only applicable if you want to be mounting such devices |
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manually. |
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-- |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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