Hi everyone,

If I insert an Audio CD in my DVD drive, the drive gets mounted and shown in the media:/ view of konqueror. Everything's fine, but if I insert a DVD, and the worst in this case, is that it's the OpenSuse 10.2 DVD that I installed the system with, well, in that case, the drive doesn't get mounted and I can't access the DVD.

I can mount a DVD with this drive just fine by manipulating fstab and mounting manually to for example /media/dvd. It's then possible to surf the content of the DVD using the terminal but it still won't show up in konqueror, even if I start komqueror as root.

Now, the actual problem that I'm having is that I can't find the location that's displayed in konqueror media:/. I assumed it was /media but as I said, I still can't access the DVD in konqueror when I mount it there manually.

Any idea what's wrong here? I had at first no fstab entry for the DVD drive so I created one to debug, I know it's ugly but it was just for testing:

/dev/hdd /media/dvd auto noauto,user,sync 0 0

I repeat, the problem isn't mounting, nor is it my fstab entries, no matter how ugly they are, the problem is getting the drive displayed in konqueror media.

There is nothing wrong here. This is the expected behavior. KDE is determining the content type of the data on the drive and acting accordingly. KDE knows the difference between music CDs, DVDs with ISO9660 file systems, DVDs with movies on them, etc.

You can control or modify the behavior of KDE by using the kcontrol utility. Start kcontrol and look for file types. Each file type may or may not have a listed action or software handler.

This sort of feature is the difference between a desktop environment like KDE or Gnome and a simple window manager like FVWM. The full featured desktop environment can be configured to do a lot of things automatically and make decisions like what to do with music CDs and what to do with installation CDs. Simple window managers do not have this capability.

Hey, thanks for your answer,

Unfortunately, everything's looking sweet in kcontrol, I mean, I have konqueror set up for Audio CDs, and for all DVDs, mounted and unmounted. Besides, it's a fresh intallation of OpenSuse 10.2, I mean by that that I haven't messed with any settings yet.

What's really odd about this all is that the automounting just won't work. When I insert an Audio CD, I get prompted for the desired behavior and the desired associated applications. When I insert a DVD, the drive's LED starts to blink and all but I don't get any dialog, nor any DVD icon in konqueror media:/.

I played with my DVDs here and it keeps on getting weirder. As I said, the OpenSuse 10.2 DVD won't get mounted, it's a DVD-RW, but the OpenSuse 10.0 (DVD-R) will get automounted just fine in the same drive!?
The only thing I can think of beside the media being R or RW, could be that I burnt the OpenSuse 10.2 DVD-RW using k3b. I'll put gloves on, start Windows and burn the ISO again there to see if it has to do with the way k3b burns DVDs. Just to be clear, I know the difference between ISOs and data. I didn't burn the ISO as a file but definetely as an image, besides, I did install OpenSuse 10.2 with that very DVD.

Ok buddy, it's just gotten personal now...

As it seems, the only DVD that my OpenSuse 10.2 won't automount is, the installation DVD!?
I've burnt the OpenSuse 10.2 ISO again on Windows XP on a DVD-RW and it still won't automount, so it's not k3b's fault.
I tried a few more DVDs, all DVD-R's and guess what, they all get automounted, so it looks like OpenSuse 10.2 holds a grudge against me or something :-)
The last option, but I can't verify this theory, is that it's just not able to mount DVD-RW's? I only have one such DVD so I can't verify this. OpenSuse 10.0 could automount DVD-RW's just fine, so if this is a new feature, hum, it's a bad one.

I need aspirin...

Interesting thread. It prompted me to check mine. I put in my SUSE 10.2 burned DVD from ISO and it mounts just fine like all other CD's or DVD's I put in the tray. SO, I guess it is just a personal thing between you and your installation or hardware

Just out of curiosity, what did you burn OpenSuse 10.2 on?

Is it a DVD-R or DVD-RW?

You know, it just sucks that the one and only DVD I can't automount is the one with all the software on it. So I guess I'll have to mount it myself and install the RPM's one by one while solving the dependencies as I can.
Could be a lot of fun, but I guess I'm better off using the repositories.

It was just a DVD-R

By the way, why don't you just create a folder in your home directory, copy the entire DVD to it, then go into YAST and add it as an installation source from local directory. If done properly, it will prompt you to accept the Novell license agreement

Yeah, good idea, being like water and choosing the way of lesser resistance, I tried something myself.

And I got the DVD to be read by Yast in the software management dialog. Still invisible in konqueror media but hey, I guess that's my destiny and they're no point fighting it :-)

Besides, I installed OpenSuse 10.2 at work in Virtual PC 2004 (the only available computer with enough RAM to run Windows and Suse at the same time) and you just know it, don't you... I can't see the DVD-RW in konqueror media either!
Maybe a bug in this version that prevents DVD-RW's from being displayed there? I just don't know anymore, I found a way around it anyway.

Thanks for you help, brothers.

Well, today there was an online update for the HAL daemon, so I updated it and guess what? It all works fine now.

Looks like it was an issue with the distribution after all, strange is though, that I actually had the same automounting problem with Suse 10.0 at first until a HAL update fixed it too, so I wonder why this always happens.

Well, I have a simular problem runing my MPlayer. I can't get the DVD to show up, yet I can browse the files all day. even play .mpg .avi ,wma files - just wont play a stupid dvd once inserted. The optimal result I was expecting was to auto-play once it's inserted. I have been searching through all the forums for an easy solutions but everything seems to be over my head. :-(

I hope you have better luck bro