Gutsy will not recognize dvdr

[James Takac]

On Sunday 18 November 2007 09:08:38 NoOp wrote:
> 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*


Hi Guys

Just did a lil research based on Ed's last post. Seems this may be a 
bugcarried over from Feisty?

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.20/+bug/78380

James