Why can't Feisty find my Dell D830's cd drive?

[christian.convey]

I've got a new Dell D830 laptop, which uses Intel's Santa Rosa chipset.

I was able to install Ubuntu from the laptop's CD drive just fine.

But now that I'm running Feisty on it, Feisty can't see the CD-ROM.

When I do "ls /dev/sd*", I see sda1...sda4, which I assume is my hard drive. But nothing like sdb*, sdc, etc.

When I do "ls /dev/hd*", just in case the cd-rom is handled by the ide driver, nothing comes up.

Does anyone know what's going on and/or how I fix it?

Thanks,
Christian

[bjarneh]

when you say feisty can't find your CD-rom do you mean that feisty can't find it, or that you can't find it in the /dev directory?
i think it's called /dev/cdrom or /dev/dvd or something like that (which is just a symlink to the actual device file) and it should be automounted when you stuff something in there....

[jb1789]

In the terminal, type

sudo gedit /etc/modules

and add

ide-generic

to the end of the file to get your optical drive working.

[jb1789]

You will also need to restart your computer before you can use the drive.


JB

[rydow]

See also http://rydow.wordpress.com/2007/08/06/getting-ubuntu-704-to-run-on-a-dell-d830/ where I have collected some issues had with the d830.

Jonas

[christian.convey]

You will also need to restart your computer before you can use the drive.


JB

Thanks, but a reboot isn't strictly necessary. To make the change effective during the current booting as well, just run:

sudo modprobe ide-generic

[christian.convey]

In the terminal, type

sudo gedit /etc/modulesand add

ide-generic
to the end of the file to get your optical drive working.
That did it! Thanks!

[Yorthegreat]

Ide-generic ist not the way to go. Won't bring you dma.

So here is a shameless plug: http://www.jordswart.org/kubuntu-on-dell-latitude-d830-with-intel-gpu/more-tuning

Using libata will give you full acceleration.

[crasho]

Instead of ide-generic use piix, than dma works.

crasho

[tturrisi]

I've had only a few small issues w/ a dell d830 & debian sid, dvd/cd was not one of them, it works fine. So does compiz-fusion & cairo-dock. My write-up here:
http://members.cox.net/tonyt/d830/