Can't pin down DVD no mount problem

[Ed Jabbour]

On Monday 25 August 2008 18:44:32 Ken McLennan wrote:

>     I tried a couple of DVDs last night. Both discs worked fine on my
> desktop machine, but had the described symptoms on the laptop. The
> Ubuntu install DVD booted fine, but wouldn't mount. A couple of music
> CDs mounted though.

Are you confusing "mount" with "play"?  You can't mount music CDs - no true 
filesystem.