Bugzilla – Bug 615446
CD/DVD drives not recognized after installation.
Last modified: 2010-06-20 13:49:47 UTC
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 SUSE/3.5.9-0.1.1 Firefox/3.5.9 M5 was a disaster for me. M6 and M7 had the same problem. The CD/DVD drives were not readily available. In M7 I had to go into root, My Computer, Right Click on the CD and mount it... then I could read it and install software from it, till the next time. In RC1 I didn't even have that option. The only thing that appeared in My Computer were the Descriptor Titles: Disk Information Device Filesystem Total space Available space Nothing else was there. Nada. So I could not mount what was not displayed. Somehow we lost the Optical Drives. Can't believe that my system is the only one showing this problem. But, I can find no other reports. In conjunction with this, the USB indicator in the Task Bar is missing. "Normally" when a disc is placed in one of my drives I get information and operations from there. Since it is missing, that may be the problem. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install the System 2. Try to read a CD or DVD. 3. You can't find an optical Drive... Actual Results: Outright failure. Expected Results: Nothing. Contact me with any questions or tests you would like me to perform. I will help all I can to fix the System. I really do like SuSE. We probably just have a typo here somewhere.
Does this happen with GNOME or KDE? Could you show the output of dmesg, please?
From which media did you install?
I found this bug in openSUSE 11.3RC1, installed KDE LiveCD. Solution – installing HAL package.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=615446
Yes, I'm sorry. It was under KDE. I did get it to work long enough to install VMware by FIRST installing HAL and gimp-module-hal. This was detected by carteblanche and oldcpu in the forums. However, it did not stay fixed. Today I tried to view a music CD and the drive was nowhere to be found. Not even in MyComputer. The HDs were listed but not the CD/DVD drive...with a disc in it.
(As said in bug#613898 comment #23) > I think, there is already some fix in factory as hal is installed and running > when installing with post-RC1 > http://download.opensuse.org/factory/iso/openSUSE-KDE-LiveCD-x86_64-Build0679-Media.iso > > A workaround for those who installed MS7/RC1, could be thus: > sudo zypper in hal ; sudo /sbin/insserv haldaemon ; sudo /sbin/reboot I close this bug. Please reopen the bug, If the problem still exist in working with HAL package installed on openSUSE 11.3RC1 KDE4 LiveCD (or in newer build of KDE LiveCD from http://download.opensuse.org/factory/iso/ )