Lauritz - thanks, I'll play around with that some. It appears to work intermittently now, which is even more troubling than not working at all - now I wonder if it's the hardware, too.
Thanks for the note! Jim On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 9:22 AM, Lauritz Thaulow <laur...@pvv.org> wrote: > I experienced this with a Matshita UJ892AS after fiddling with the BIOS > settings for it. Don't remember quite what setting it was, but there > were only two choices, and setting it back fixed the issue, at least > partly. > > -- > Matshita DVD-RAM UJ-862AS not working at all in Ubuntu 9.10 > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/478025 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > > Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu: New > > Bug description: > I'm running a fresh install of Ubuntu 9.10 on an Acer Aspire Timeline > 4810T-8480, which contains a Matshita UJ-862AS DVD-RAM. I cannot mount or do > anything to the drive and am getting some strange messages in the logs. The > drive seems to work in a Windows 7 install on a different partition but does > not work at all in Ubuntu. > > This is killing me and although I see some complaints about problems using > this device in Linux (seems like various distributions and kernel versions), > I'm not seeing the same problem as I have - complete failure of the device. > I'm happy to do some serious debugging if anyone can start pointing me in the > right direction. Thanks in advance. > > Some information: > j...@ubuntu:~$ uname -a > Linux ubuntu 2.6.31-14-generic #48-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 16 14:05:01 UTC 2009 > x86_64 GNU/Linux > > lspci, dmesg attached. > -- Matshita DVD-RAM UJ-862AS not working at all in Ubuntu 9.10 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/478025 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
