DVDs and CDs won't show up in file manager

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EndeavourOS Cinnamon.

I just bought my DVD/CD drive and plugged it into my Fedora laptop, and it works good enough. DVDs and CDs are read by both Nemo and VLC. But when I plug the drive into my gaming computer (lsusb shows it is connected) and put a disc in, DVD or CD, said disc doesn't show up in the file manager and therefore isn't recognizable by VLC. I have libdvdcss and its parts and the other libcdo whatever its called installed, and it still isn't being recognized. Any ideas?

[zealous river]

install gnome-disk-utility

see if it detects media in drive

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disk usage analyzer?

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and if so, click the play button to mount

no. exactly as I said

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oh

nope

nothing

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what it show? does the drive appear in it, just no media?

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nothing shows but the three drives inside the computer

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replug

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been doing

[zealous river]

if not, it's a hardware driver issue, not a codecs issue

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fun

what driver do i need

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install hardinfo or hardinfo2

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you sure? it looks like benchmarking software

[zealous river]

and get as much info that endeavour can see about the drive itself

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ah

[zealous river]

yes im sure

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what info do you need?

it does show up

[zealous river]

post a ss of it

[zealous river]

u may have to see what the deal is with endeavour os loading sr0 (/dev/sr0)

perhaps it must be plugged from boot

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i restarted my computer once with it plugged in and ill do it again

uno momento

not mounted

[zealous river]

seems like it's seeing it as usb mass storage but not as optical

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thats kind of weird

the driver does say usb-storage

[zealous river]

it should definitely show up as SOME kind of drive in DISKS

(gnome-disks)

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nope

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bus 001 Device 070

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?

[zealous river]

that's what the OS is seeing it on

google endeavour os + portable optical drives

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its giving me pendrive results...?

results dont really tell me anything

[zealous river]

there's likely some issue

listed in those results

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no like

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.

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its either integrated drives or pendrives

i also asked in arch discord but no one responded

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is there anything else in hardinfo that alludes to DVD/CD

Check full device tree in it

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nothing in filesystems

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how?

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expand everything on the left

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yeah?

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anything about /dev/cdrom or sr0

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doesnt look like it

its not mounted at all

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hoping to know more about sr0

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it is not mounted at all

there is no sr0

[zealous river]

plug it to Fedora, install hardinfo, and see what's different

compared to above pic

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driver is also usb-storage

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compare every line. see if any real diff

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serial number missing on fedora

other than that, nothing

[zealous river]

check with lsblk in Fedora

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wait

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does sr0 show up as a dev

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i think it might genuinely be a difference of usb 3.2 vs usb 2

to test im gonna plug it into the back of my computer and see if it is

[zealous river]

sr0 should show whether there's a disk in the tray or not.

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hold on

yeah something else is up than just usb differences i think

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yeah it says something is mounted

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.

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through what?

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lsblk

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the size of the mounted disk?

RM says 1, size says the size of the CD

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show result of lsblk with no disc in the tray

from Fedora

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still saying 369.4M

unplugged and replugged and now 1024M?

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but what does the device name say?

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sr0

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good

so something with arch or endeavour not mounting sr0

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yeah

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not mounting perse, but loading the concept of it

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mm

[zealous river]

there was some ticket someone wanted that exact effect

=what is ur ailment was their desire

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to

not have it mounted properly

what is even happening anymore.....

[zealous river]

this guy wanted to unbind it. u want to bind it. read it over n try to make with it what you will.
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more theory on the matter:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1242074/whats-the-difference-between-dev-sg0-and-dev-sr0

as for why it doesn't just work in Endeavour; no idea.

[lapis kraken]

sudo pacman -S udftools dvd+rw-tools cdrtools libdvdread libdvdcss udisks2 libcdio

@brittle epoch arch is DYI, so my best guess is it doesn't come with stuff that handles cd/dvd

[lapis kraken]

did you solve?

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Haven’t had the time

Installing new gpu and waiting for parts to arrive

I did see the fox tho, will test ASAP

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the fox??

[lapis kraken]

the fix

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🥱

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😴

[lapis kraken]

@brittle epoch

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Okay now that my computers working again I’ll test, thx for reminding me

it doesnt seem like its working? it might be taking a while to scan the disc but that feels unlikely

[zealous river]

u set the bind thing as per this ticket?

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i legit didnt see that, one sec

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"sr 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0"

problem is i dont think the disc is mounted

[zealous river]

Get your drive's device ID by checking dmesg -w, or by doing ls /sys/bus/scsi/drivers/sr. It'll look something like 0:0:0:0
Do `echo -n "0:0:0:0" > /sys/bus/scsi/drivers/sr/unbind` (root permissions required)

This unbinds the kernel's sr device driver for this drive, until you reboot, unplug and replug it, or just bind it back again via echoing to~~ bind instead of undbind~~

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im gonna try the bind command

[zealous river]

once u do, u should see in lsblk a device named sr0

which u weren't last time

and it doesn't matter if there's a disc in it or not

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uh

[zealous river]

if u see sr0 in lsblk then plop a disc in, and fire up gnome-disks

use sudo

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that was superuser

i am superuser because even sudo didnt work

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oh

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i dont

so
a. there is no sr0 or anything diff
b. this thing has usb-c AND usb-a but i dont think i can plug both in at the same time?

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add one more colon to last 0

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o

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in this

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yea

still no such device

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what gave u this?

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the post

not any command

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dmesg -w?

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actually yes

hold on

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or by doing ls /sys/bus/scsi/drivers/sr

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hold on

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see what that shows

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for this

brb dishes

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shows sr 6 (sr0) is bound to a drive. so it should show in Disks app now

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use usb A only if possible to see if it works

the binding present. it should just show up; the dvd tools lot mention are for dvd movies but a dang audio CD, or data-DVD should just work

unless if not to sr0 it might need to bind to cdrom (/dev/cdrom)

or dvd (/dev/dvd)

[zealous river]

this isn't a bad idea to have at all either, udisks2, libcdio, cdrtools etc.

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i installed all that