On Wed 16 Mar 2011 at 16:58:15 (-0300 UTC) Michael Powell wrote:
Marco Calistri wrote:
Mates,
Starting from 11.2 after some kernel updates, up to last 11.4, I am not more able to use my CD drive to burn media.
Beside horrible noise generated from the drive, attempting to read the media tracks and or setting the parameters, all the tries to burn an iso image are vanes.
The problem is world-wide present in many linux distro as Ubuntu, Arch, Debian,... so is clear that is kernel related. Don't know about that... My box burns CD and DVD media with no problem. Has for a long time, 11.3 and now 11.4 have not any problem for me. But my burner is also an old IDE PATA type and not SATA. It is unclear what kind of hardware you have.
Wonder if somebody has been able to find a solution to this annoying issue and what are the latest news in regards to (may be ) a kernel-patch.
I doubt you need any kernel patch. Most of the rest of the world can burn CD/DVDs and don't need any kernel patches. If you have in the past been patching your system willy-nilly that is more likely to be the cause of your problem.
The first wedge to drive in for a divide and conquer approach is you somehow need to eliminate hardware from the picture. If you can prove the burner can work in another machine and/or OS then you can concentrate on software being the problem. Until you definitively split the problem you could be just continually keep going around in circles.
-Mike
Hello Mike! I'm using a notebook here HP DV6230BR and the CD/DVD is a TST Corp. (sorry I cannot provide further details now). I will provide more details in case the issue be HW or perhaps driver (kernel_module) related. I seen plenty of complains by googling and many users declare is not hardware problem since the CD/DVD stopped to work suddenly after a kernel upgrade. Some people have ran a kernel downgrade in order re-establish the proper working of the media driver. Since openSUSE 10.3 I always used official kernels so I can disregard this point. I can suspect two things so far: hardware malfunction or driver (kernel_module) malfunction with current kernels. In order to isolate the cause I will try to boot my machine with a Windows external HDD, but I'm pretty sure that CD will works ok. Thanks for your feedback, is really what is a good modum-operandi and I was already aligned with such step by step verifications but I would post the issue just to see if somebody else jump out talking " I have the same problem too and I solved in this way..." Regards, -- Marco Calistri You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with. -- Wayne Dyer -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org