I have an LG-GH22NS50 DVD RW drive. My problem is it has, all of a sudden, stopped reading any disc I pop into it. I'm running Slack 13.1, although I'm fairly certain this isn't relevant, coz the drive is not reading from discs even at boot-time. I got this drive just a couple of months back, so dust build-up inside isn't very probable. What could be the problem here?
View 12 RepliesWhat can do I read a dvd media in 13.1 system and not in 13.37?
13.1 fstab and 13.37 are the same.
I tried to read some dvd-r, dvd+r, dvd-rw and dvd+rw medias. I get reading all in 13.1. In 13.37 sometimes!
I've installed Lenny a few times before, but something is going wrong here this time. I couldn't remember the exact method I used to put an image on a disc, but I tried over 10 ways, and every time, after starting up, it says something along the lines of please select different boot device or insert bootable disc and press a key. There's a bunch of options to make these images in Windows apps, but I did one solid way that should have worked i believe.
This was to zcat boot.img.gz > /dev/sdx and so on, then copy the mini.iso to the usb drive (instead of previously making cds). I thought maybe my cd drive wasnt working, but the usb drive, when selected as primary boot drive had same issue. I didnt see any errors in its creation on the usb drive either. Running AMD64, have three hard drives plugged in, thought maybe the newest drive had an issue, so I tried different combinations of unplugging power and data cords of each and once all hrd drives. Using this computer right now, actually, XP is running. A command prompt version of squeeze is installed, its having some difficulties, thats why i would like a new install.
I am having problems reading burned media from my optical drives. I can burn media but after it's burned my drives do not read them, but if I use a different system it reads just fine.I am a newbie at this so I have no idea what I did wrong.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI don't understand the results of a simple performance test I ran using two basic scripts (running on a high end server):
perfVar.zsh :
#!/bin/zsh -f
MYVAR=`cat $1`
for i in {1..10}
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Performance test result:
> time ./perfVar.zsh BigTextFile > /dev/null
./perfVar.zsh FE > /dev/null 6.86s user 0.32s system 100% cpu 7.177 total
> time ./perfCat.zsh BigTextFile > /dev/null
./perfCat.zsh FE > /dev/null 0.01s user 0.10s system 91% cpu 0.118 total
I would have thought that accessing a VARIABLE was way faster than reading a FILE on the file system... Why this result ?Is there a way to optimize the perfCat.zsh script by reducing the number of accesses to the file system ?
i installed kernel 2.6.34 to fix my lid closing issue, and that went great. but now when i go to reinstall my broadcom i get this error. Code: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done bcmwl-kernel-source is already the newest version. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used. Setting up bcmwl-kernel-source (5.60.48.36+bdcom-0ubuntu3) ... Removing old bcmwl-5.60.48.36+bdcom DKMS files...
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I was trying to change the mounting point of a usb external drive from '/media/disk' to '/media/Movies'
Here is were the stupid part takes over... I right clicked on the desktop icon for the device and selected Properties. From there I selected the Volume tab and in there I changed the mounting point to '/media/Movies' It accepted it and said the changed would take place when I unmounted it and remounted it. However, when I did this it now says it cannot be mounted as it says mount_point contains invalid characters usually /
Unfortunately, now I cannot get back into the properties to remove my error.
I recently put Linux back on my laptop (Vector) and I am trying to get any of the media players on it to recognize and play the music on my desktop, which is running Windows 7 Ultimate with WMP streaming music over my wireless network. I was wondering if this can be done, or if these features have yet, if ever, to be implemented.
View 2 Replies View RelatedUbuntu10.10.i want a media player with all media codecs.it should able to play all formats of videos and audios so please suggest me a media player.(i used km player in windows i want a media player like that)
View 1 Replies View RelatedI just bought a new hard drive so that I could convert my XP-only machine into an XP-Ubuntu-Windows 7 triple boot machine.Since the drive is absurdly huge (1 TB) I wouldn't mind throwing ReactOS into the mixtoo.I just found out that master boot records are limited to 4 entries, meaning 4 primary partitions. I had Windows XP set up on my old drive as a boot partition, a program files partition and a media partition. Since I really didn't want to install XP from scratch, I cloned this setup on my new drive.
This leaves me one MBR partition entry for installing Windows 7, Ubuntu and ReactOS. I'd like to avoid having to install XP from scratch like the plague, partly because it's supposed to be a safety net in case things go wrong with my other OS's and because I've invested a lot of time getting it set up exactly the way I like it.Here are the options I've considered and why I don't like them:Install Windows 7 on my media partition. This would work, but I prefer to keep my media partition completely separate from any OS, so that I can reformat an OS partition without affecting my media partition at all.
Use wubi or something to install Ubuntu in the same partition as something else. Again, this is brittle.Move all my media to a logical drive on an extended partition. Create another logical drive on this extended partition for Ubuntu. The problem here is that extended partitions are rather brittle--if you nuke one, it renders the rest useless.Just put the old drive back in my computer and run XP off it. Use the new one for the other OS's. The problem here is that the old drive is slower and uses extra power, generates extra heat, etc.
I have an NTFS volume on my system which I regularly access from within Ubuntu 9.10, mostly to play the plethora of DVD images (*.iso files) stored there. I use VLC Media Player to watch the content. For some reason, VLC's file browser only shows a small subset of the files by default. I have to select "All Files" instead of "Media Files" to see all the *.iso's.
What's this about? Since they're all the same type of file, I don't understand why some would be viewed as "media files" but others not. If the files were on a Linux-type filesystem (ext3 etc.) I would guess it had something to do with permissions, but I'm not sure how file ownership & permissions apply to a mounted NTFS volume.
I did a fresh installation of OpenSuse 11.4-x64 and everything is working smoothly except for some eps figures. In Opensuse 11.3, fedora or ubuntu these figures open without problems. In 11.4 the same figures show a message "Could not load document". I am trying to attach some example of the figures with this problem but I don't know how to do. All the EPS figures that I can't open have the same beginning.
Code:
%!PS-Adobe-3.0 EPSF-3.0
currentpacking true setpacking
/cg_md 141 dict def
cg_md begin
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I just decided to learn how to use opensuse(total newbie), I installed 11.4 on my macbook along with os x. At first I used to be able to read the two HFS+ partitions on the laptop after entering the password. But after looking up how to configure the system on the macbook(sound, grahpics....etc) I dunno if I messed up something or what, now I get this error whenever I try to mount the HFS+ partitions( I am still asked for authorization though):
An error occurred while accessing 'Data', the system responded: org.freedesktop.UDisks.Error.Failed:Requested filesystem type is neither wll-known nor in /proc/filesystems nor in /etc/filesystems
How do I get Fedora 14 to read a commercial DVD?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have a linux hard drive that I can plug into an external USB interface.. how do i read from this? from windows it only shows it as a unpartitioned drive
View 4 Replies View Relatedjust installed Xubuntu on 2 computers and they're both not picking up my jump drives or my card readers, or anything usb...
View 1 Replies View RelatedI want to share my DVD drive on my desktop with my Eee PC using NFS. I have set up NFS without any problems but I can't watch any DVD's.I have mounted /media/cdrom and I can see the files on the desktop DVD drive.When attempting to play the DVD over NFS using VLC I receive a loud screeching noise but it does play for different durations of time which I'm guessing are the DVD's chapters)
View 9 Replies View RelatedI am using a backup system with cron + tar. Since the server is very busy, I get often the cron-email: "The file XYZ has changed while reading". This message is a bit annoying and I see it as critical point in my backup system. I believe that this file is then not in my backup. (Is that correct?) Let's imagine the hard disk dies and I have to recover the system and my personal data, and in the night the mysql-table XYZ was not in the backup, because it was in read-usage. I would then have lost this table forever. Is there any way to tell TAR, that it should force the file to be included (if in read-usage, then wait 2 seconds and try again)?
View 9 Replies View RelatedHow do I get my CD-ROM drive to read its contents? I am trying to read a music cd and it won't show in Dolphin or in other OS windows. I am using F10KDE.
View 3 Replies View RelatedUnfortunately, I find that Fedora 15 may have been released a bit too soon, due to it's lack of freedom. Examples: desktop customization yes. I used gnome-tweak-tool and yes I like gnome 3, but I much prefer gnome 2 + compiz,emerald for it's much more pleasant to the eye. Gnome 3 should have been an option, not forced on to the community! Other reason, desktop recording, the original recordmydesktop via command line has a much higher quality than the gnome 3 which is not even worth bothering since the gnome 3 freezes afterwards leaving a poor video playback that resembles an early 2000's .gif image! Another thing is it does not read my mp3 player while fedora 12-14 had absolute no issues! I will be returning to fedora14 until gnome 3 is fully established and meets the requirements of it's loyal customers!!
View 2 Replies View RelatedSame problem as someone else below- my optical drive will not read CDs in SuSE 11.3 (all the latest patches). CDs read fine in Windows, DVDs fine in both.This is a brand new drive, since my old one gave up the ghost last Tuesday (no longer appeared in BIOS)Drive is Samsung SH-S223L, and dmesg gives the following errors:
[ 64.952304] Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 158968
[ 71.651194] sr 6:0:0:0: [sr0] Unhandled sense code
[ 71.651198] sr 6:0:0:0: [sr0] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE
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user@user-laptop:~$ sudo dd if=sd_backup of=/dev/sdd bs=4M conv=noerror,sync
205520896 bytes (206 MB) copied, 28.564 s, 7.2 MB/s
247463936 bytes (247 MB) copied, 57.1285 s, 4.3 MB/s
260046848 bytes (260 MB) copied, 73.2388 s, 3.6 MB/s
289406976 bytes (289 MB) copied, 104.121 s, 2.8 MB/s
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How come dd gets slower after copying this 8GB file? What can I do about it?
I have the following bash script:
#do some time consuming task here read -p "Give me some input: " input
Now as you might've guessed, if users press some random keys during the "time consuming task," they're read into input as well. how do I clear stdin (or at least ignore it) before I issue the read command?
I have over 200 old .doc files that I cannot read properly with oo. Some of the files just give e one line of what looks like formatting info and the rest of the files show the text but in the middle of garbage and not formatted. If I use a winXP machine and get the MSWord add-on from MS it will read these. I do not like to use Win machines and also I need a batch method for the conversion, either to odf or docx format.
View 7 Replies View RelatedI installed grub2 into a usb flash drive, the system loads grub fine, but then dumps me to the grub> prompt.The only way i can get the system to continue on is to type inCode:configfile /boot/grub/grub.cfgdoes anyone know how to get grub to auto-load the grub.cfg file?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI recently set up a server in my house using Apache 2 running off Ubuntu 10.10 Netbook edition (no, the computer is a desktop). I tried running the website on a few computers in house and all the images and scripts seem to load fine but it is unable to read from the data.xml file through javascript. This leaves all of the web pages empty because all of the content is parsed from the xml file through javascript. I tried debugging with google chrome and after running this code to load the xml file:
if (window.XMLHttpRequest) {
// For IE7+, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari
xmlhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
}
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the xmlhttp.responseXML is null and the script crashes. Could this be a permission issue? I tried setting the data.xml file to read-write permission for any user but that didn't work.
hard drive I already pretty old and sometimes there `input / output error` when copying ... It is normal that when referring to hard drive system hangs for a while?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI'm trying to setup ncmpcpp correctly and I'm running into an issue with mpd not reading my directories correctly. I dual boot ubuntu/w7 on this computer, and for the sake of laziness I just keep all of my music within the default windows folder ( since half my music was there first ). Now I have a symlink within my home directory's music folder that points to this, however according to mpd it isn't a director.
View 2 Replies View Relatedi would like to burn an image to a dvd but the image file is in .mdf format like that of many images created in alcohol 120%. what do i need to do in windows to burn such an image or be able to read the file?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI am running Debian off a CF on a SBC board (TS-7200). I am connecting via serial ttyAM0. It has a 2.4.26 Kernel running a Sarge distro of Debian.
I am using a terminal in windows to work on the device via serial. (Tera Term)
I am trying to read the input from a keyboard usb device. However, I want to eventually be able to read from any HID device. I currently have a Dell keyboard plugged into usb. lsusb gives:
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 413c:1003 Dell Computer Corp.
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 413c:2010 Dell Computer Corp.
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