cd rom drive worked on 9.04 but not in 9.10 ?

[davidy67]

hi, i had Ubuntu 9.04 installed on my Mac Mini G4 system and have now burned and updated to 9.10, the cd rom drive is not detected upon reboot and install from live cd, dont have a clue why it worked in 9.04 and not 9.10 after reboot from live cd install.

thanks in advance

[NoBugs!]

Can you start from a different livecd? If no bootable cds work, it may be an Apple-efi bug. See http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1090160

[davidy67]

dont think thats the solution, im trying to say that i have installed 9.10 but after it is installed to the hard drive and run from there it can not see any cd or dvd in the drive, the fstab file is the same configuration as it was when i was running 9.04 which i have now downgraded too for now because i need the cd rom drive for dvds and audio cds.

[zts-it]

hi, i had Ubuntu 9.04 installed on my Mac Mini G4 system and have now burned and updated to 9.10, the cd rom drive is not detected upon reboot and install from live cd, dont have a clue why it worked in 9.04 and not 9.10 after reboot from live cd install.

thanks in advancesame problem and also on Mac Mini G4. Got audio/music CDs to load by installing *CD Player 2.0.0*, but DVDs are no go. The CD/DVD drive itself is detected on boot, but it seems it's always "empty" when you insert a DVD. These are the specs detected:
---------
description: Computer
product: Mac mini
vendor: Copyright 1983-2004 Apple Computer, Inc. All Rights Reserved
serial: xxxxxxxxxxx
width: 32 bits
*-core
description: Motherboard
physical id: 0
clock: 166MHz
capabilities: powermac10_1 macrisc3 power_macintosh
*-firmware
product: OpenFirmware 3
physical id: 0
logical name: /proc/device-tree
capabilities: bootinfo
*-memory
description: System memory
physical id: 1
size: 1GiB
*-bank
description: DDR SDRAM
product: PC2700U-25330
physical id: 0
version: 0000,05 02,00
serial: K
slot: DIMM0/J11
size: 1GiB
*-cpu
description: CPU
product: 7447A, altivec supported
physical id: 2
bus info: cpu@0
version: 1.2 (pvr 8003 0102)
size: 1249MHz
clock: 166MHz
capabilities: altivec performance-monitor
*-cache:0
description: L1 Cache
physical id: 0
size: 32KiB
*-cache:1
description: L2 Cache (unified)
physical id: 1
size: 512KiB
clock: 1249MHz (0.8ns)
*-pci:0
description: Host bridge
product: UniNorth 2 AGP
vendor: Apple Computer Inc.
physical id: 100
bus info: pci@0000:00:0b.0
version: 00
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
configuration: driver=agpgart-uninorth latency=16
resources: irq:0
*-display
description: VGA compatible controller
product: RV280 [Radeon 9200]
vendor: ATI Technologies Inc
physical id: 10
bus info: pci@0000:00:10.0
version: 01
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: agp agp-2.0 pm bus_master cap_list rom
configuration: driver=radeonfb latency=255 mingnt=8
resources: irq:48 memory:98000000-9fffffff(prefetchable) ioport:400(size=256) memory:90000000-9000ffff memory:90020000-9003ffff(prefetchable)
*-pci:1
description: Host bridge
product: UniNorth 2 PCI
vendor: Apple Computer Inc.
physical id: 101
bus info: pci@0001:10:0b.0
version: 00
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
configuration: latency=16
*-generic
product: KeyLargo/Intrepid Mac I/O
vendor: Apple Computer Inc.
physical id: 17
bus info: pci@0001:10:17.0
version: 00
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master
configuration: driver=macio latency=16
resources: irq:0 memory:80000000-8007ffff
*-ide
description: IDE Channel 0
physical id: 1
bus info: ide@1
logical name: ide1
clock: 33MHz
*-usb:0 UNCLAIMED
description: USB Controller
product: KeyLargo/Intrepid USB
vendor: Apple Computer Inc.
physical id: 18
bus info: pci@0001:10:18.0
version: 00
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
configuration: latency=0 maxlatency=86 mingnt=3
*-usb:1 UNCLAIMED
description: USB Controller
product: KeyLargo/Intrepid USB
vendor: Apple Computer Inc.
physical id: 19
bus info: pci@0001:10:19.0
version: 00
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
configuration: latency=0 maxlatency=86 mingnt=3
*-usb:2
description: USB Controller
product: KeyLargo/Intrepid USB
vendor: Apple Computer Inc.
physical id: 1a
bus info: pci@0001:10:1a.0
version: 00
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master
configuration: driver=ohci_hcd latency=16 maxlatency=86 mingnt=3
resources: irq:29 memory:80083000-80083fff
*-usb:3
description: USB Controller
product: USB
vendor: NEC Corporation
physical id: 1b
bus info: pci@0001:10:1b.0
version: 43
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=ohci_hcd latency=16 maxlatency=42 mingnt=1
resources: irq:63 memory:80082000-80082fff
*-usb:4
description: USB Controller
product: USB
vendor: NEC Corporation
physical id: 1b.1
bus info: pci@0001:10:1b.1
version: 43
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=ohci_hcd latency=16 maxlatency=42 mingnt=1
resources: irq:63 memory:80081000-80081fff
*-usb:5
description: USB Controller
product: USB 2.0
vendor: NEC Corporation
physical id: 1b.2
bus info: pci@0001:10:1b.2
version: 04
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=ehci_hcd latency=16 maxlatency=34 mingnt=16
resources: irq:63 memory:80080000-800800ff
*-pci:2
description: Host bridge
product: UniNorth 2 Internal PCI
vendor: Apple Computer Inc.
physical id: 102
bus info: pci@0002:20:0b.0
version: 00
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
configuration: latency=16
*-generic
product: UniNorth/Intrepid ATA/100
vendor: Apple Computer Inc.
physical id: d
bus info: pci@0002:20:0d.0
version: 00
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master
configuration: driver=ide-pmac latency=32
resources: irq:39 memory:f5004000-f5007fff
*-ide
description: IDE Channel 0
physical id: 0
bus info: ide@0
logical name: ide0
clock: 33MHz
*-disk
description: ATA Disk
product: ST940110A
vendor: Seagate
physical id: 0
bus info: ide@0.0
logical name: /dev/hda
version: 3.07
serial: 3KW4TMFS
size: 37GiB (40GB)
capacity: 37GiB (40GB)
capabilities: ata dma lba iordy smart security pm apm partitioned partitioned:mac
configuration: apm=off smart=on
*-volume:0
description: Apple partition map
physical id: 1
bus info: ide@0.0,1
logical name: /dev/hda1
capacity: 31KiB
*-volume:1
description: Apple Bootstrap
physical id: 2
bus info: ide@0.0,2
logical name: /dev/hda2
size: 974KiB
capacity: 977KiB
capabilities: bootable hfs initialized
configuration: created=2009-12-13 01:31:41 filesystem=hfs label=bootstrap modified=2009-12-13 01:31:42 state=clean
*-volume:2
description: EXT4 volume
vendor: Linux
physical id: 3
bus info: ide@0.0,3
logical name: /dev/hda3
logical name: /
version: 1.0
serial: e1ba674c-5ba2-47cd-b64a-f5534fe12fc3
size: 35GiB
capacity: 35GiB
capabilities: journaled extended_attributes large_files huge_files dir_nlink recover extents ext4 ext2 initialized
configuration: created=2009-12-13 01:14:01 filesystem=ext4 lastmountpoint=/����������h�� ������US�����J����������P������U modified=2009-12-13 01:34:29 mount.fstype=ext4 mount.options=rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,barrier=1,data=ordered mounted=2009-12-13 01:57:13 state=mounted
*-volume:3
description: Linux swap volume
physical id: 4
bus info: ide@0.0,4
logical name: /dev/hda4
version: 1
serial: a3b67b6e-51cc-422b-bc33-9f3ac457fded
size: 1611MiB
capacity: 1611MiB
capabilities: swap initialized
configuration: filesystem=swap pagesize=4096
*-cdrom
description: DVD reader
product: MATSHITACD-RW CW-8123
physical id: 1
bus info: ide@0.1
logical name: /dev/hdb
version: CAD4
capabilities: packet atapi cdrom removable nonmagnetic dma lba iordy audio cd-r cd-rw dvd
configuration: mode=udma2 status=open
*-firewire
description: FireWire (IEEE 1394)
product: UniNorth 2 FireWire
vendor: Apple Computer Inc.
physical id: e
bus info: pci@0002:20:0e.0
version: 81
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=ohci1394 latency=64 maxlatency=24 mingnt=12
resources: irq:40 memory:f5000000-f5000fff
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: UniNorth 2 GMAC (Sun GEM)
vendor: Apple Computer Inc.
physical id: f
bus info: pci@0002:20:0f.0
logical name: eth0
version: 80
serial: 00:11:24:33:b1:f6
size: 100MB/s
capacity: 100MB/s
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: bus_master rom ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=sungem driverversion=0.98 duplex=full ip=192.168.1.19 latency=16 link=yes maxlatency=64 mingnt=64 multicast=yes port=MII speed=100MB/s
resources: irq:41 memory:f5200000-f53fffff memory:f5100000-f51fffff(prefetchable)
--------------------
I'll probably mess with it for a few more hours and if no success then I'll try Fedora 12 for PPC and see if I have any better luck.

[DBMiller]

I've just installed 9.10 on my eMac. Everything seems to work just great but no DVD/CD drive. I put in a data dvd and the system won't open it. All I can get is the option to format the disk.
I was going to replace the drive, it is old and won't open on it's own anymore, but I see this is an Ubuntu issue.
It would be great to get this resolved.
DBMiller

By the way, this is my first Ubuntu.

[linuxopjemac]

It sounds like a serious bug in Karmic's ppc version.

[linuxopjemac]

It's not only ppc apparently, searching through the forums I found this one:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=8458028

solution might be here:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1289478&highlight=automount+cdrom

[zts-it]

It sounds like a serious bug in Karmic's ppc version.Yes. Karmic runs perfectly on my Intel PC notebook with no CD/DVD problems. It seems it's just PPC version (and maybe AMD too). Loading Fedora 12 for PPC just to see if CD/DVD works there.

[zts-it]

Couldn't resolve the CD/DVD automount problem in the 9.10 for PPC. Fedora 12 for PPC ... same issue as Karmic plus it's much slower than Ubuntu at least on this MacMini G4. For some reason I couldn't boot up from Ubuntu 9.04 CD ... maybe a damaged media. However, I loaded the latest Debian 5.0.3 for PPC (lenny) and no problems whatsoever. All media is mounting correctly. I'm still puzzled tho why the 9.10 is working perfectly fine on my Intel PC notebook (ASUS G1) but has this media recognition problem in the PPC version.

[brunoscunha]

I have the same issue. Karmic does not recognize my laptops cd/dvd drive. I had to install karmic from an external usb disk.
The cd/dvd does not shows up on fstab

[migel_wimtore]

Similar issue with ibook G4. Everything was rosy (disk drive wise) in 9.4, now nothing. There is no icon on the desk-top or any evidence of the CD wherever i know where to look, though it does eject with the eject button and installed flawlessly from LiveCD- detected disk drive no probs (which it didnt with 8.10). Weird.
Been on ubuntu a week now and plan never to switch back to mac (over priced and over rated) so a fix would be great.
Also, there is no CD drive icon in my places menu, which i think there was in 9.4 and previous.

Cheers everyone.

[redwoodguy]

I'm not sure how I got this info, but I thought ONLY 9.04 has been made to run on PPC Mac. I installed 9.04 easily on my G4 ball, then tried to upgrade to 9.10 using the Upgrade manager, and it toally BLEW sky high. I had to revert to 9.04, which is working 99% fine.

[migel_wimtore]

Hi redwoodguy, i thought the same thing (though i dont know why), and trying to upgrade through update manager also totally locked-up my machine and on reboot was sort of half installed and really faulty, but did an install from 9.10 alternate liveCD (the main disc image was too big for an 80min CD) and it installed perfectly (actually has less noticeable issues than 9.4). Other than the disc drive issue and problems with trying to install all available security updates at once through update manager (there was over 150 and it locked up my machine trying to process them all, so i did them 20 at a time) shes running beautifully. Plus of course she still wont wake from hibernate or suspend, but that was the case in 9.4 as well anyways.

Get it here: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ports/releases/9.10/release/
Go for the alternate if you find the main one wont fit on CD

Give it a go and let us know how it went.

Cheers.

[koenigdererdmaennchen]

Yust another confirm: karmic does not recognize media insertion into superdrive (MATSHITADVD-R) on PowerBook G4 17" 1.67GHz, although listed in dmesg. This used to work in Jaunty.

[Zabadda]

yeh im having the same issue after installing 9.10 on a G5 tower, the cd boots live and the install is perfect but on booting into the hard drive it wont mount the media drive.

Is the solution to go back to 9.04? or is anyone using another Linux they can share with us?

[migel_wimtore]

Though there is no disc icon on the desktop when media is inserted i am getting CD playback in VLC ("Open Disc..." in Media drop down menu) as well as XINE and GNOME-Mplayer, though the latter two take a while to recognize media.

Getting broken DVD playback for a region 2 disc (but nothing for another) and perfect playback for a region 0 DVD in VLC as well as a very old region 2.
Getting the sound from one region 2 DVD in GNOME-Mplayer, broken playback for another and near perfect playback for the region 0 and the very old region 2, except for a white line down the screen and allot of noise from the disc-drive.
Whilst XINE thinks most of the region 2 DVDs i inserted are crypted, but plays-back the region 0 proper smooth, as well as the old region 2.

Disk Utility recognises disc-drive (though says "unrecognised") and inserted media (also unrecognised).

So, CD playback is possible through VLC, XINE and GNOME-Mplayer.
DVD playback is touch and go, but possible with certain discs and certain apps. Perhaps there is an app out there that will play all DVDs though. Anyone know what it is?????

PS- i am getting slightly clicky sound during playback, but also get this for internet vids, wasnt getting this in 9.4 or 8.10, but had asumed it was something to do with my speakers personally (one of which i broke when opening my machine, perhaps i mashed something up in there that 9.10 is picking up on but which OSX and previous Ubuntu distros didnt) as sound playback via a USB soundcard (imic) through external speakers is perfect. Or has anyone else been experiencing clicky sound in 9.10 through built in speakers???

[migel_wimtore]

"sudo mount /dev/hdc" to mount explicitly through the terminal (common knowledge im sure but im very new to gnu/linux so forgive me). This gets the disc icon to appear on the desktop, though unfortunately playback is still hit and miss, as before.
Also, "sudo umount /dev/hdc", (note: umount, not uNmount, which had me scratching my head for a sec) must be entered in terminal before the eject button is effective- the right click menu wouldnt let me unmount from it and wanted root privileges (though this could be because i resonantly reinstalled ubuntu over the wrong partition, as i didnt know what i was doing, or because i made some other misstep during install, or is any one else having that message?).

CDs are actually fine for me, but is any one out there getting reliable dvd playback on a ppc running 9.10, or who knows how to get it???

Edit: sorry for all my text on this page.

[koenigdererdmaennchen]

I've filed a bug report Bug #507113 (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/507113). Please feel invited to confirm to raise chances that this problem will be solved some day.
Thanks!

[the wizard of oz]

Same problem here with an iBook G3.

[conal]

I have 9.10 running on two ppc's:

I fixed the cd/dvd mount problem on my G4 iMac by installing Kubuntu and switching to KDE as my default window manager. Installing KDE fixed some other problems too, e.g auto-mounting a shared partition on my hard drive - no idea why! I have kept gnome and when I switch back to it the problems remain.

In short, I recommend Kubuntu on these models!

However I am still looking for a solution on my old G3 iMac as KDE will be too heavy for this and I'm not getting CD/DVD recognition in XFCE or LXDE. I tried Fedora 12 on the G3 but it hangs during install.

Cheers

Conal

[koenigdererdmaennchen]

After upgrade to Lucid, the problem is even worse: I even cannot mount by hand any longer: sudo mount /dev/hdb first seems to work fine and i see the media contents in nautilus for a few second, but then the C/DVD is unmounted by something...
NO trace in the logs, as you might expect.
What a mess...

[koenigdererdmaennchen]

If the above should happen to you, check your /etc/fstab and remove the entry for your cd/dvd drive. Then it's possible to mount manually at least. Aha.

[sha.goyjo]

After upgrade to Lucid, the problem is even worse: I even cannot mount by hand any longer: sudo mount /dev/hdb first seems to work fine and i see the media contents in nautilus for a few second, but then the C/DVD is unmounted by something...
NO trace in the logs, as you might expect.
What a mess...

Is it that there is nothing in the logs recognizing the drive (i.e. including dmesg), or nothing in the logs recognizing the insertion of a disk? That might help for bug hunting.

Please note that I'm asking this before having read the whole launchpad thread! :P

EDIT:
Alright, I've finished reading the Launchpad Report and I'm still confused. Is the drive itself recognized by the system, and the disks aren't mounting...or not?

[koenigdererdmaennchen]

The drive is recognized by the kernel (dmesg) and even udisks (--enumerate), but the insertion of a disk leaves no traces in the log and the disks are not mounted. I guess uevents are somehow not propagated from the PPC kernel to udisks...

[koenigdererdmaennchen]

First progress (for me): insert a disk into the drive and then issue the following command on the terminal (either as root or per sudo):
udisks --poll-for-media <your device goes here>
(where <your device goes here> must be replaced by the appropriate device, i.e., /dev/hdb in my case) and the disk appears as by magic. Eject / unmount then works as expected.
To my experience, you should repeat this command every time after the content of the drive changed to make it work properly.

I suggest to put the command into a little shell script on your shelf to have it at hand (as i did).

EDIT:
I filed a new bug report #590448 (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/udisks/+bug/590448) including these observations. I hope this receives more attention than the previous one...

[sha.goyjo]

This is HAWT news beyond compare koenig. Unfortunately the udisks poll command only works for me once per boot before failing without any error message. Any clues?

[koenigdererdmaennchen]

This is HAWT news beyond compare koenig. Unfortunately the udisks poll command only works for me once per boot before failing without any error message. Any clues?
I have to run the command not only after a disc was inserted, but also after it has been ejected. Then it works as often as desired.
If this does not help, try to kill the process:
1) Determine process number by
ps aux | grep udisks
On my machine, the poll process looks like:
root 1238 0.0 0.0 7172 1036 ? S Jun07 0:00 udisks-daemon: polling /dev/hdb
2) Kill it via process number:
sudo kill 1238
3) repeat the poll command from my previous post.
HTH

P.S.: Please consider to confirm my bug report #590448 (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/udisks/+bug/590448). Thanks.

[sha.goyjo]

Confirmed.

[330P4]

This is a known bug with Ubuntu powerpc distros beginning with Karmic 9.10

I have personally tried 10.04 and 10.1

9.04 PLAYS CDs but not easily

6.06 Dapper Drake Plays CDs easily....

My Lombard PB G3/333 (1999) has a newer Pismo (2000) DVD-ROM drive.

512MB RAM

30GB HDD

Orinoco Silver 802.11b Cardbus wifi mimics Airport...

I've been a MACSTER since 1997...

Mac recycler since 2000

J.C.