How to get K3b to find optical drive?

[Matt Graham]

From: joe at actionline.com
> I have an external dvd burner connected to my computer, but when I
> try to run K3b:
> No optical drive found.
> K3b did not find any optical device in your system.

This is a USB device, right?  If it's not always plugged in, udev might not
set its permissions correctly.  If you do "ls -l /dev/scd* /dev/sr*" when the
device is plugged in, you should see at least one CD-ROM device, and it should
be readable/writable by your user and/or group.  (I know that when I plug my
camera in, I can't do a thing with it unless I'm in the plugdev group, because
something sets its group ownership to plugdev.)

If you don't see any CD-ROM devices, then something below k3b is wrong, and
you need to fix that first.  In the old days, people would forget to modprobe
ehci_hcd, usb-storage, and sr_mod, but those all should be loaded in anything
modern.

> How can I determine if the HAL daemon is running?

HAL should have nothing to do with this problem.  "ps auxw | grep hald" should
show a few things, though.

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