DVD problem in FC5

Andy Campbell fedora at starsend.force9.co.uk
Sun Oct 1 13:28:17 UTC 2006


William Murray wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-09-27 at 13:36 +0100, William Murray wrote:
>   
>>   Hello there,
>>         I have a problem with FC5, must have started within the last
>> month, but I don't know which  update.
>>
>> My dvd drive (TSSTcorp CDRW/DVD TSL462C; device /dev/scd0)  no longer 
>> automounts CD/DVDs when inserted. Now I can get root and mount manually,
>> but it is annoying.
>>
>> Actually I have two options:
>>   -> No boot-time kernel option
>>      This gives correct auto-mounting, but no DMA--> DVDs unwatchable
>>   -> hdc=noprobe
>>      This gives no auto-mount, but I can watch DVDs
>>
>> I used to get both at once.
>>      Any clues anyone?
>>                Thanks,
>>                     Bill
>> [Ps 2.6.28 kernel seems just the same]
>>
>>
>>     
> HS reports hal 0.5.7.1-2 solves this in Debian. However, I have
> hal-0.5.7.1-2.fc5 and it doesn't help.
>     Can anyone suggest debug info I should check?
>             Bill
>
>            
>
>   
Take a look at the following bug, the work around worked for me ....

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=201400

Andy




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