Wine doesn't recognise my dvd drive anymore

[Bob Williams]

Recently, my DVD drive has stopped being accessible to programs running under
wine. This started when I was running oS 11.2, improved following an upgrade
to 11.3, but has now recurred.

My current system is oS 11.3 with KDE 4.5.3, and Wine 1.2.

In Wine configuration, under the Drives tab, D: has no Drive mapping.
Autodetect does nothing. If I browse to /dev/ and then complete the Path: to
read /dev/sr0, it seems to stick until I click OK, but it has disappeared next
time I open wine configuration. In the same tab, if I click the 'Show
Advanced' button, there are greyed out entries for

Device: /dev/sr0
Label: Audio CD
Serial: IDE02DD

None of my wine apps can see the CD/DVD drive, but it is mountable and usable
in the host system.

I am in the group cdrom.

Has anyone else come across this problem, and if so, how did you fix it?

Thanks,

Bob

[Marcus Meissner]

Post by Bob Williams
Recently, my DVD drive has stopped being accessible to programs running under
wine. This started when I was running oS 11.2, improved following an upgrade
to 11.3, but has now recurred.
My current system is oS 11.3 with KDE 4.5.3, and Wine 1.2.
In Wine configuration, under the Drives tab, D: has no Drive mapping.
Autodetect does nothing. If I browse to /dev/ and then complete the Path: to
read /dev/sr0, it seems to stick until I click OK, but it has disappeared next
time I open wine configuration. In the same tab, if I click the 'Show
Advanced' button, there are greyed out entries for
Device: /dev/sr0
Label: Audio CD
Serial: IDE02DD
None of my wine apps can see the CD/DVD drive, but it is mountable and usable
in the host system.
I am in the group cdrom.
Has anyone else come across this problem, and if so, how did you fix it?

- is the the hal daemon running? It is responsible for removable drive detection.

- Or workaround:

You can link the drive in ~/.wine/dosdevices

e.g. symlink:
ln -s /media/CDROMNAMELINK d:

Ciao, Marcus

[Bob Williams]

Post by Marcus Meissner

Post by Bob Williams
Recently, my DVD drive has stopped being accessible to programs running
under wine. This started when I was running oS 11.2, improved following
an upgrade to 11.3, but has now recurred.
My current system is oS 11.3 with KDE 4.5.3, and Wine 1.2.
In Wine configuration, under the Drives tab, D: has no Drive mapping.
to read /dev/sr0, it seems to stick until I click OK, but it has
disappeared next time I open wine configuration. In the same tab, if I
click the 'Show Advanced' button, there are greyed out entries for
Device: /dev/sr0
Label: Audio CD
Serial: IDE02DD
None of my wine apps can see the CD/DVD drive, but it is mountable and
usable in the host system.
I am in the group cdrom.
Has anyone else come across this problem, and if so, how did you fix it?

- is the the hal daemon running? It is responsible for removable drive
detection.

Yes.

Post by Marcus Meissner
You can link the drive in ~/.wine/dosdevices
Ciao, Marcus

Good suggestion. I found two d: symlinks in ~/.wine/dosdevices, both pointing
to /dev/sr0. Deleting one made the setting stick in the wine configuration
tool, which is a distinct improvement, but the programs running under wine
still can't see the drive :(

Thanks,

Bob