fresh install ---blooming DVD drive not recognized AGAIN

[Ric Moore]

On 01/16/2012 08:00 AM, Ioannis Vranos wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 5:41 AM, Ric Moore<wayward4now at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>
>> I just pushed "Real Lies" in the drive. From a command line I launched VLC.
>> I tried to open the disc using /dev/sr0 and got this in the error window:
>>
>>> Playback failure:
>>> DVDRead could not open the disc "/dev/sr0".
>>> Your input can't be opened:
>>> VLC is unable to open the MRL 'dvdsimple:///dev/sr0'. Check the log for
>>> details.
>
> Are you using the terminal version VLC?
>
> In any case, try opening /dev/dvd.
>

Thanks, but I tried that early on. /dev/dvd is just a link to /dev/sr0. 
But, I tried both. Another CLEAN install, hands-off, did the trick. 
That's why I don't usually do the dist-upgrade, it leads to tears. But, 
I don't have the usual partitions I use as this has a mere 20gigs of 
harddrive. But, when my motherboard finally comes back from ASUS, this 
machine will be a fine backup machine for testing client stuff out on.

Thanks again Ioannis! You and BC tried your best. :) Ric