[gNewSense-users] Re: dvd no detected, don't play dvds or cdroms - Solved

[Wilfredo Rivera]

thanks. Worked as expected. 

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> Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 21:57:04 +0100
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>       cdroms
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> Wilfredo Rivera schreef:
> > I do have a request for help. My DVD which I know it works, won't play
> > cd's or DVD's. I have been looking at a couple of how to's but they're
> > old and have not been able to help. I did a Discover but can't see
> > anything related to DVD or CDrom for that matter. 
> > 
> > I do recall that when first booting from the cd to install gns I had to
> > pass "all_generic_ide" to prompt because of the busybox prompt that
> > showed up before the actual install. I don't know if that had something
> > to do. Also, I looked into my /etc/fstab file and does not say anything
> > about dvd. It's like its not even there... 
> 
> It could be the first problem described in Hardy's release caveats [1]. 
> The related bug report [2] has been marked as Fix Released, so make sure 
> you have all the updates.
> 
> If an updated system still doesn't work then those release notes suggest 
> to connect the drive as slave or always boot with "all_generic_ide". For 
> the latter option, edit /boot/grub/menu.lst [3]. You'll probably find a 
> line saying:
> 
> # defoptions=quiet splash
> 
> Change that to:
> 
> # defoptions=quiet splash all_generic_ide
> 
> and then run 'sudo update-grub' (without quotes) in a terminal.
> 
> [1] 
> http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/hardy/beta#head-2aeb09ed1ccc470c1f83b77fe62a06c43280dd68
> [2] https://launchpad.net/bugs/181561
> [3] In a terminal: sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst
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