lucid: DVDs no longer accessible

[Ric Moore]

On Wed, 2010-07-21 at 20:54 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Wednesday, July 21, 2010 08:44:42 pm Ric Moore did opine:
> 
> > On Wed, 2010-07-21 at 21:51 +0300, William Hamra wrote:
> > > On 07/21/2010 09:43 PM, Reinhold Rumberger wrote:
> > > > On Wednesday 21 July 2010, William Hamra wrote:
> > > > <snip>
> > > > 
> > > >> try :
> > > >> 
> > > >> sudo mount /dev/sr0 /cdrom
> > > >> 
> > > >> this works fine on my system.... if it's DVD as you mention, you
> > > >> *might* need to add the -t option, it can be iso9660 or ufs, so
> > > > 
> > > >> the command becomes:
> > > > You mean udf?
> > > > 
> > > >> sudo mount -t iso9660 /dev/sr0 /cdrom
> > > >> OR
> > > >> sudo mount -t udf /dev/sr0 /cdrom
> > > > 
> > > > Corrected that command...
> > > > 
> > > >   --Reinhold
> > > 
> > > snap.. yeah, it's udf... thanks for the correction :)
> > 
> > Still doesn't address why the DVD isn't fired up automagically, when
> > it's inserted. It just doesn't seem to work no mo'. Ric
> 
> That is what my last burner did, Ric.  I fought with it for a week, gave up 
> & saddled up my GMC and made a trip to dear old WallyWorld clear out to the 
> other end of town, where a fresh LiteOn with a sata interface seemed to 
> beckon to me.  It couldn't do lightscribe, but I found that was only very 
> slightly better than worthless when it did work with the previous 3 drives.
> No where near enough contrast to the image IMNSHO.  That was about 4 months 
> back up the log.
> 
> Then I thought I had lost it a couple of weeks ago as it didn't recognize 
> the cd of PClinuxOS-2010-7-x64 I had just burned in it.  But a full, 
> powerdown reset for about 30 seconds brought it back to life.
> 
> I have not had a burner last me a full year yet, usually just long enough 
> for the warranty to expire.  BBLB syndrome I guess.

I think you mis-understood. Our DVD drives are just fine. But, in Lucid,
if you put in a movie DVD you no longer get the popup asking you what to
do with it ... K3B, Xine, Movie Player, etc. It no longer happens and I
did a fresh install of Lucid. It's probably just something wacky
somewhere. Otherwise, DVD's play just fine manually. Ric