Kubuntu 9.04 on sony vaio VGN-NS11S

[Ignazio Palmisano]

Mark Greenwood wrote:
> On Sunday 31 May 2009 16:55:22 David McGlone wrote:
>> On Sunday 31 May 2009 11:01:16 am Humberto S. Shiromoto wrote:
>>> On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 4:12 PM, David McGlone <david at dmcentral.net> wrote:
>>>> 1. Have you checked to see if the volume is up on the microphone?
>>> Yeah, I checked it out the volume is fine... besides that, when I plug the
>>> headphone, the sound comes out by the headphone and by the computer
>>> speakers.
>>>
>>> 2. When you put a CD or DVD in the DVD player, have you checked the in icon
>>>
>>>> on
>>>> the tool bar next to the clock? It should pop up asking you what you
>>>> would like to do with the DVD such as "open in dolphin" "play with dragon
>>>> player" etc, etc...
>>> Yeah, it simply doesn't detect anything... very very strang
>> what do you get when you type in a console window:
>>
>> ls -la /dev/cdrom
>>
>> and 
>>
>> ls -la /dev/dvd
> 
> I'm running on a VAIO (different model) and I get the same problem - the new Device Notifier doesn't do anything. I can get around it by going to a terminal and typing 'mount /dev/cdrom' after I insert a disc.
> 
> The actual problem however appears to be that HAL polling is not enabled for the drive, and no command I can find will cause it to be enabled. I think it might be a Sony BIOS issue.
> 
> Mark
> 

A friend of mine has a VGN-Fj1s; the cdrom drive is sometimes not 
recognized. Accurate internal inspection and empirical trials (tried to 
pull out the drive and insert it in again adding a final "gentle" push 
with my fist) made it work again, but every now and then the problem 
would show up again. Apparently the cdrom connection has come loose. I 
wonder if different (yet I guess similar) vaios might me experiencing 
that sort of failure.
2c,
I.

>> -- 
>> Blessings,
>> David M.
>> http://www.dmcentral.net
>>
>