Hello there,

Gxine and k3b dont find any optical drives (ide) on my new Slack64 13.1.

This worked in 13.0 64 bits.

The dvdrom and dvdrw drives work good and also hald work because if i put a optical disk in these drive he mount and appear automatically in dolphin....

Any way to solve the problem ?

Philippe

I added my user name to disk in /etc/group. Then rebooted, problem solved.

Hello,

Yes I have do same this night and this solve the problem with k3b but not really with gxine.

I *think* that, may be because the drive are located at hda and hdb, udev use not the good rules and work like it was hard disk.
I say that because also the system lack the usual cdrom, dvd... links to optical disks.

What is the way to :
add or modify udev rules for have 0666 as default permissions on dev node like hda and hdb ?
add or modify udev rules in order that he create the links to optical drives ?

I have googled arround that but due to the change of udev config files with versions, a lot of tutos are out of date...

Thanks a lot.

Philippe

While I am using Slackware64 13.1, I am still using a custom 2.6.32 kernel. I just fired up gxine and it did not see my optical drive either. Couldn't find anything in Preferences to fix it. So I just did:

gxine now sees the dvd and played Transformers 2. Hope that was helpful.

Your optical drive in stock Slackware might just be named sr0 or something other than hda or hdb. I am not using a libata configured kernel just yet. I know nothing about creating udev rules. I guess I better be learning real quick.

In 13.1 your drive should be named /dev/sr0 or some such thing because of the libata switchover...and you should also probably delete /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-cd.rules and reboot so it will be regenerated. It should theoretically create the links properly...

Problem solved !

I have removed the ide_atapi option of my kernel conf. and remove udev rules 70-persistent-cd.rules.

After recompiling kernel, modules etc... and restart everything ok !
70-persistent-cd.rules is automatically recreated !

Now cdrom etc links are here !

Thanks a lot.

Philippe