Installation problem with cdrom drive

[kloschi at subsignal dot org]

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On 16 Jan 2005, at 19:10, evilmegaman at comcast.net wrote:

> Hi I am having a problem installing ubuntu. When It is probing 
> devices, It gets to scanning for cd rom drives, but then it tells me 
> it cannot load the driver for it. what should I do?

I experienced this before having a brandnew pc with nvidia chipset and
an dvd-rom drive.
different dvd-rom drives had the same issue.
finally I've taken an old cd-burner and it worked.

this machine has also troubles accessing the dvd-rom
while running windows, only solution was to disable all
nvidia chipset drivers in windows.

also knoppix 3.4 was recognizing the dvd, later knoppix
not. I haven't researched what the difference between
these versions was. I expect its the nvidia modules in
the kernel.

maybe newer kernels are broken in booting from nvidia
chipsets in combionation with (certain?) dvd drives.

maybe thats your problem also.

hth,
kloschi


> -- 
its better to burn out than to fade away ..




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