geoffm
March 17th, 2009, 07:28 PM
I can't read any DVD's, data or video. It spins but nothing appears in /cdrom, /media/cdrom or anything. When I try to read a video DVD using Kplayer or VLC it spins, gets really noisy and doesn't load.
At one point, I ran a text-based application that made recommendations to optimise power consumption, one of the things it made me do was cd-rom related (something about refresh or probing rate I think), I can't remember what it was or what the application is.
I got the laptop with preinstalled ubuntu, cdrom must have been working before. Here is what lshw says.
*-cdrom
description: DVD writer
product: DVD+-RW GSA-S10N
vendor: HL-DT-ST
physical id: 0.0.0
bus info: scsi@3:0.0.0
logical name: /dev/cdrom
logical name: /dev/cdrw
logical name: /dev/dvd
logical name: /dev/dvdrw
logical name: /dev/scd0
logical name: /dev/sr0
version: A103
capabilities: removable audio cd-r cd-rw dvd dvd-r
configuration: ansiversion=5 status=open
At one point, I ran a text-based application that made recommendations to optimise power consumption, one of the things it made me do was cd-rom related (something about refresh or probing rate I think), I can't remember what it was or what the application is.
I got the laptop with preinstalled ubuntu, cdrom must have been working before. Here is what lshw says.
*-cdrom
description: DVD writer
product: DVD+-RW GSA-S10N
vendor: HL-DT-ST
physical id: 0.0.0
bus info: scsi@3:0.0.0
logical name: /dev/cdrom
logical name: /dev/cdrw
logical name: /dev/dvd
logical name: /dev/dvdrw
logical name: /dev/scd0
logical name: /dev/sr0
version: A103
capabilities: removable audio cd-r cd-rw dvd dvd-r
configuration: ansiversion=5 status=open