From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 22 16:25:27 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DD7437B404 for ; Thu, 22 May 2003 16:25:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from postal3.es.net (postal3.es.net [198.128.3.207]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE2D743F85 for ; Thu, 22 May 2003 16:25:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from oberman@es.net) Received: from ptavv.es.net ([198.128.4.29]) by postal3.es.net (Postal Node 3) with ESMTP id MUA74016; Thu, 22 May 2003 16:25:24 -0700 Received: from ptavv (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ptavv.es.net (Tachyon Server) with ESMTP id DEB825D08; Thu, 22 May 2003 16:25:23 -0700 (PDT) To: Jesse Sheidlower In-Reply-To: Message from Jesse Sheidlower of "Thu, 22 May 2003 18:59:07 EDT." <20030522225906.GA19158@panix.com> Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 16:25:23 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" Message-Id: <20030522232523.DEB825D08@ptavv.es.net> cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CD-RW problems on ThinkPad X23 X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 23:25:27 -0000 > Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 18:59:07 -0400 > From: Jesse Sheidlower > Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org > > > I have an IBM ThinkPad X23 running FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE, and am having > various problems with my CD-RW drive. It's part of the Ultrabase, > which is how the X-series laptops add some peripherals. > > I didn't do anything special to configure it; it just worked. I had > previously used it to install some software, but I don't have any > CD-ROMs around right now for testing. I had never tried anything > else, since I didn't need to burn any CDs and I hadn't gotten around > to getting sound support compiled. > > Now that I've done so, I find that I can't really do much. If I try > to put in an audio CD, with the GUI CD Player app, I get the message, > "Error accessing cdrom device. Please check to make sure cdrom drive > support is compiled into the kernel, and that you have permission to > access the device. Reason: no such file or directory." Using > cdcontrol on the command line, I get: > > cdcontrol: no disc in drive /dev/acd0c > > even when there is. > > Burning CDs doesn't work either; I constantly get: > > monopoly/ # burncd data test.iso fixate > burncd: open(/dev/acd0c): Device not configured > > It does register on boot: > > monopoly/ # dmesg | grep acd > acd0: CD-RW at ata1-master PIO4 > > Any suggestions for where I should start to poke? I haven't found > anything too helpful online. The most obvious is permissions. Are you doing this as root or as a user? If you ae running as root, do "ls -l /dev/acd*". What are the major and minor modes? acd0a and acd0c should both should be 117 0. If they ae not, delete them and "cd /dev;MAKEDEV acd0" Hope this helps. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634