dvd cd rom not recognized

[F.User_4_Life]

i went into k3b and the memorex i have is not installed. i was wondering if anybody could help me install the drivers or what ever the problem may be.
i think the problem is that the driver is not installed so linux doesn't recognized. i think that the auto run feature is missing to. ill look for it in yum ex or package manager. im not sure what it is called but i will look any way.

any help would be nice?
and thanks for reading.

[F.User_4_Life]

ok i checked hardware browser and it sais its /dev/sdc0 and that the drivers non or built in. when i putt a cd or dvd in it doesnt spin the disc or any thing.

[F.User_4_Life]

do i have to install a particular kmod to get it to recognize. my kernel is 2.6.23.14-115.fc8

i also went into the services program and enable amd(auto mount daemon) and a couple of others. but it wont matter cause the drive is not seen in linux. the bios recognizes that it is there. the hardware profile program sees it as memorex ddl-in i think, ill have to look at it agin.

your help would be gravely useful because there are a lot of people who are do have the same problem as i.

[Seve]

Hello:
What is the output of

$ dmesg | grep CD-ROM

Seve

[F.User_4_Life]

scsi 1:0:0:0: CD-ROM Memorex 16X-DDL-IN 1.A3 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
sr 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0
[root@localhost Ed_KDE]#

[F.User_4_Life]

sorry if i took some time to respond i was uploading wallpapers

[Seve]

Hello:
It looks like it is recongized okay.

If you put a commercial DVD (movie) in the drive and then use say Mplayer / Totem / VLC to open it what happens.

To get more information open a terminal and log in as root and type
tail -f /var/log/messages

Then pop in the DVD and try one of the applications to open it

Seve

[F.User_4_Life]

ok when i open totem or any other player i click the go tab and the list is blank i did the

tail -f /var/log/messages

and this is what came up

[root@localhost Ed_KDE]# tail -f /var/log/messages
Feb 10 11:18:18 localhost rsyslogd: [origin software="rsyslogd" swVersion="1.19.11" x-pid="2007"][x-configInfo udpReception="No" udpPort="514" tcpReception="No" tcpPort="0"] restart
Feb 10 11:43:56 localhost amd[8542]: reload of map /etc/amd.net is not needed (in sync)
Feb 10 12:06:38 localhost amd[8542]: Unknown host: .Trash
Feb 10 12:06:38 localhost amd[8542]: Unknown host: .Trash-501
Feb 10 12:50:46 localhost amd[8542]: reload of map /etc/amd.net is not needed (in sync)
Feb 10 13:05:33 localhost auditd[2026]: Audit daemon rotating log files
Feb 10 13:50:47 localhost amd[8542]: reload of map /etc/amd.net is not needed (in sync)

[F.User_4_Life]

i dont get the dvd or cd symbol on the desktop like i should be. it doesn recognize that a disc is inserted its like the drivers dont work

[Seve]

Hello:
Not sure why you have all the

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Feb 10 12:06:38 localhost amd[8542]: Unknown host: .Trash
Feb 10 12:06:38 localhost amd[8542]: Unknown host: .Trash-501 


showing up?

Do you have the following services running ?
haldaemon
autofs
messagebus

Seve

[F.User_4_Life]

i just stoped them

[Seve]

Hello:
Those services should be running and not shut down.
There is an excellent guide to which services you need located here :
http://dnmouse.webs.com/services.htm

Seve

[F.User_4_Life]

thanks i started some that werent on and installed some that i didnt have . im going to restart my pc and post any changes.

[F.User_4_Life]

still no difference in the cd dvd drive. its not being recognized.

[F.User_4_Life]

this is my k3b error

No CD/DVD writer found.
K3b did not find an optical writing device in your system. Thus, you will not be able to burn CDs or DVDs. However, you can still use other K3b features like audio track extraction or audio transcoding or ISO9660 image creation.