On Saturday, 20 August 2016 07:29:25 BST Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* huw <huw@synapticsilence.net> [08-20-16 06:55]:
Hello
Some time in the last three days my PC has stopped detecting audio CDs in my CD/DVD ROM drive (I haven't tried a DVD yet). After spending a bit of time reading up on this on the web, I have tried adding myself to the audio and cdrom groups, although I've never needed to be in them before. Nothing has worked yet. K3B says that no optical device is detected, and nothing appears in Dolphin and there's no device notifier popup when I insert a CD.
I don't really have the knowledge to troubleshoot this so I would appreciate any assistance. I'm on Leap 42.1. Many thanks in advance.
perhaps your drive has expired :( open yast2 and go to hardware and see if yast sees your optical drive.
Hmm...it's only a year old and makes the expected noises when I insert a disc, so a hardware failure didn't occur to me. However I cannot see any reference to an optical drive in hwinfo (I looked under the IDE and block device categories and anywhere else that looked vaguely related). Oh well, at least they're cheap to replace these days! Thank you for helping. Kind regards, Huw