Gutsy will not recognize dvdr

[NoOp]

On 11/17/2007 02:55 PM, Frank McCormick wrote:
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> On Sat, 17 Nov 2007 17:35:54 -0500 Ed Miller
> <miller07 at suddenlink.net> wrote:
> 
>> James Takac wrote:
>>> On Sunday 18 November 2007 07:34:01 Ed Miller wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I reinstalled gutsy to make using my extra hard drive easier. I
>>>> used my dvd to install it. Now I am trying to use the dvd
>>>> player to install build-essentials but can't get Gutsy to
>>>> recognize the dvd. It's not just
>>> 
>>> Do you per chance no the type of drive, i.e. sata or pata, maybe
>>> scsi? I had the same on my other laptop before and I should check
>>> to to see if I need to apply the workaround again as I
>>> reinstalled Gutsy fresh on it. Ok they fixed what was the prob
>>> for me earlier in Gutsy
>>> 
>>> I can remember having to do a
>>> 
>>> sudo modprobe piix sudo update-initramfs -u
>>> 
>>> then editing /etc/modules adding the piix line to make it stick
>>> 
>>> Just doing the modprobe should tell you if this is your prob as
>>> you should be able to read from the drive again in that session
>>> if it is
> 
>> Thanks for the quick reply. I believe the drive is a pata. When I
>> run modprobe piix it tells me the module does not exist. Any ideas
>> where i can find it? I googled it and found some stuff but no
>> downloads.
>> 
> 
> I have these on my system:
> 
> /lib/modules/2.6.22-2-686/kernel/drivers/ata/ata_piix.ko 
> /lib/modules/2.6.22-2-686/kernel/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-piix4.ko 
> /lib/modules/2.6.22-2-686/kernel/drivers/ide/pci/piix.ko 
> /lib/modules/2.6.22-3-686/kernel/drivers/ata/ata_piix.ko 
> /lib/modules/2.6.22-3-686/kernel/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-piix4.ko 
> /lib/modules/2.6.22-3-686/kernel/drivers/ide/pci/piix.ko
> 
> You probably got "command not found" - you have to run modprobe as
> root..so try sudo modprobe piix
> 
> Cheers

I don't think that he really wants to do that...

If he just needs to find what modules are available on this system he
should:

modprobe -l *piix*