Feisty/dvd burner not recognized / Gnomebaker
 

Cannot burn dvd's although drive will burn cd's. Relative newbie and not overly comfortable with terminal (but learning). Installed 3d nVidia driver in newly installed Feisty and lost video. After much experimenting have video back, but now Gnome video is really wonky and doesn't always catch on reboots (black screen). Don't know how to go back to video default -if that's possible. So I'm trying to back up files in preparation for a complete reinstall of 7.04 386. Still haven't learned how to get network installed properly, so I cannot back up to either of the other two boxes. Therefore I'm trying to back up my files to dvd's so I don't lose them prior to reinstallation. Installed Gnomebaker through Synaptic and it seems to work fine, but when I try a burn it stops and says there's a burning problem and I might not have a suitable dvd in drive (discs are in drive). Have tried dvd-r's and dvd-rw+r's. Highlighting the dvd drive, which shows up in Places/Computer as a cdrw/dvdrw drive and right clicking gives the message Unable to Mount Drive, There is Probably no Media in Drive. After searching through posts I've eventually found my /dev/hdc (my dvd burner) to be not listed in the fstab (which I think might be my problem). However I cannot find any info on what to enter. I know how to edit the fstab if required. My cd drive is there but no dvd burner. NU DDQ-081 8X DVD+RW drive, Asus A8N32-SLI Deluxe mobo, GeForce 6600GTOC card. System ran fine on Dapper although I've never gotten dvd drive to burn before. It burns fine on the evil empire OS. I:confused: From another post's info I tried dmesg|grep -i dvd and found the following:

[ 37.393490] hdc: NU DVDRW DDW-081, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
[ 38.176966] hdd: CRD-8520B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
[ 39.216594] hdc: ATAPI 40X DVD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)

Also here are the contents of my fstab:
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# /dev/sdb1 -- converted during upgrade to edgy
UUID=90d1a548-2765-4a68-ba14-2731b82f6da1 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /dev/sdb5 -- converted during upgrade to edgy
UUID=a2ea378f-7f35-495a-a7d1-233870737c4d none swap sw 0 0
/dev/cdrom /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
No idea where to go from here... Many thanks for any assistance.

Ok, shot in the dark but have seen this before, what brand of DVD are you using?

As far as your video is concerned that's all handed through the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file.

Did you install the driver from the vendor's site?

Many thanks
 

Have found a work-around. My vid problem solved tonight. In a bookstore I picked up a copy of Hacking Ubuntu by Neal Krawetz, which told me how to install new hdd, remove old hdd from system, load Feisty onto new drive, reboot and mount old drive to copy old files onto new drive ...this took all the panic out of potentially losing all my data files :cool: . On my new instl'n I then used the book and the most excellent Feisty info file at http://doc.gwos.org/index.php/Latest_nvidia_feisty to get my nvidia 3d working properly. Lastly I installed GnomeBaker once more on the new installation and lo and behold it will now recognize my dvd burner (formatted a dvd+r rw). I think the fresh install of Feisty was probably, what did it for the burner. Now to learn how to set up a 3-box network in NFS... Cheers,

I have had the same problem with my burners, i think it was some incorrectly modified permissions or something, but a fresh install always brings stuff back to where it should be.. lol...