Hi, I'm pretty new to linux and I'm trying to access some data I backed up onto DVDs and CDs. I'm unable to access one DVD, it just shows up as blank even though windows shows all the gigabytes of files. Another disc I put actually crashes linux somehow. The cursor freezes and the keyboard doesn't do anything, I can't even ctrl+alt+del. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I'm also having problems with the auto shutdown, I've looked everywhere on the net but I can't seem to find a solution. After logging out of linux by clicking "turn off computer" linux shuts down nicely and it turns off the keyboard and optical mouse but it won't turn the system off. the Atx stuff works for windows so I know it's activated, any help?

I'm running SUSE 10.1 with the KDE desktop.

hello mikeybthepilot

about your dvd maybe you're missing a driver. do you know how to compile your kernel? and about blank, do you mean an empty directory? did you try to mount the dvd already?

for your auto-shutdown problem you may not have a proper power manager like ACPI or APM

please post the output of the following commands:

it's possible that it's missing a driver but other CDs/DVDs work, one's I've bought, just not the ones I've burnt execpt for the Linux install disk I made, that one works well. I'm fairly certain the drive is mounted, it simply gives me an error saying "Access denied to /media/Name_of_the_Disk" when I try to access it. Otherwise the disk shows up with it's name and such in the directory tree.

I've also spent many hours looking into my power problem. It is my understanding from what I've been reading that SUSE 10.1 no longer uses APM and now relys on ACPI, which seems to be activated as far as I can tell, perhaps I have a motherboard problem? Any ideas?

As for the code I've typed in what you said and here is the output.

Code:
mike@linux:~> ls -l /dev/hd*
brw-rw----+ 1 mike disk 22, 0 2006-07-29 06:30 /dev/hdc
brw-rw----+ 1 mike disk 22, 64 2006-07-29 06:30 /dev/hdd
mike@linux:~> dmesg | grep ^hd
hdc: HL-DT-ST GCE-8525B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdd: HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-4163B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdc: ATAPI 52X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)
hdd: ATAPI 79X DVD-ROM DVD-R-RAM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)
mike@linux:~> dmesg | grep -e APM -e ACPI
BIOS-e820: 000000003fffc000 - 000000003ffff000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 000000003ffff000 - 0000000040000000 (ACPI NVS)
ACPI: RSDP (v000 ASUS ) @ 0x000f5e80
ACPI: RSDT (v001 ASUS A7S333 0x42302e31 MSFT 0x31313031) @ 0x3fffc000
ACPI: FADT (v001 ASUS A7S333 0x42302e31 MSFT 0x31313031) @ 0x3fffc0b2
ACPI: BOOT (v001 ASUS A7S333 0x42302e31 MSFT 0x31313031) @ 0x3fffc030
ACPI: MADT (v001 ASUS A7S333 0x42302e31 MSFT 0x31313031) @ 0x3fffc058
ACPI: DSDT (v001 ASUS A7S333 0x00001000 MSFT 0x0100000b) @ 0x00000000
ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0xe408
ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x00] lapic_id[0x00] enabled)
ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x00] high edge lint[0x1])
ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x02] address[0xfec00000] gsi_base[0])
ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 0 global_irq 2 dfl edge)
ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 9 global_irq 20 low level)
ACPI: IRQ0 used by override.
ACPI: IRQ2 used by override.
Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information
ACPI: bus type pci registered
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20060127
ACPI: Interpreter enabled
ACPI: Using IOAPIC for interrupt routing
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 *11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 *10 11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 *5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15) *9
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKG] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15) *9
ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00)
ACPI: Assume root bridge [\_SB_.PCI0] bus is 0
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.PCI1._PRT]
pnp: PnP ACPI init
pnp: PnP ACPI: found 15 devices
PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
apm: overridden by ACPI.
ACPI wakeup devices:
ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S4 S5)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0b.0[A] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 177
ACPI Error (acpi_processor-0500): Invalid PBLK length [5] [20060127]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:09.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 185
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:09.1[B] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 193
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:09.2[C] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 177
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:02.2[D] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 177
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:02.3[A] -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 201
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0c.0[A] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 177
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:05.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 185
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0a.0[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 193
ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
ACPI: Power Button (CM) [PWRB]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:00.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 209

Thank you again for all your help.

What specific, exact command(s) are you running to create the backup?

Welcome to LQ!

how about trying to completely disable apm? some of the programs might still recognize apm. should you remove the driver perhaps?

none, I burnt the Disks in Windows XP.

I'm sure that APM isn't running at all. I'm still new to Linux and I'd prefer to not delete drivers if I can avoid it. Is it possible that the motherboard isn't fully compatible with Linux?

I admit it's difficult to find what's causing your system not to automatically turn off. But perhaps you can try to upgrade your kernel to a newer version and it might solve your problem as you said that your motherboard is probably not supported. Maybe it's supported now.