External CD/Bluray Drives Not Showing up in Dolphin

General system Kernel, boot, graphics & hardware
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I have 2 USB CD/BR drives. K3b and Clementine find them but Dolphin and Nemo don’t.
MakeMKV doesn’t see them and running lsblk doesn’t show them either.

I had them available when I was using EOS previously but forgot what I did to make that happen.

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If you don’t see them, then probably you researched and installed a driver from the AUR (guessing)?
I haven’t had optical disks in probably 3 generations of PCs, so…no clue :slight_smile:

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I have an external CD/DVD drive and it doesn’t show up until a CD or DVD is inserted and it begins to read/play. I didn’t need to install any drivers, it worked immediately after I first used it.

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Before CD inserted:

1
1816×711 83.5 KB

After CD inserted:

2
2816×712 90.2 KB

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Tried both audio CDs and bluray DVDs in them and didn’t make a difference In Dolphin or MakeMKV.

drives
drives297×529 25 KB

makemkv
makemkv571×642 36.9 KB

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I’m not familiar with MakeMKV. I’ve never heard of it. As for why your external CD/Blueray drives aren’t showing up after you insert media, I’m at a loss. It should “just work.”

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Perhaps full hardware info will help someone assist you. Run inxi -Fxxc0z | eos-sendlog and share the short-url it generates here.

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Make sure you have the needed packages:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Blu-ray#Preparation

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Optical_disc_drive#Playback

Install if needed, reboot and try again.

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I have libbluray and libaacs installed and can play audio CDs in Clementine, Strawberry etc…

k3b
k3b845×683 105 KB

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https://0x0.st/8WLJ.txt

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Just to be sure, it couldn’t hurt to run:

yay -S libbluray libaacs libcdio libdvdread libdvdcss libdvdnav

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warning: libdvdcss-1.4.3-2 is up to date – reinstalling
warning: libdvdnav-6.1.1-2 is up to date – reinstalling
warning: libbluray-1.3.4-2 is up to date – reinstalling
warning: libcdio-2.2.0-1 is up to date – reinstalling
warning: libdvdread-6.1.3-2 is up to date – reinstalling
warning: libaacs-0.11.1-4 is up to date – reinstalling

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Also audiocd-kio perhaps?

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I just restarted and booted with the latest kernel (had been booting with the LTS kernel)
and both drives now appearing in Dolphin and Blurays are seen by MakeMKV :grinning_face:
Don’t have any idea why the LTS kernel wasn’t working???

6.14 kernel
6.14 kernel1327×1175 218 KB

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Yeah, generally don’t run LTS unless you need to (imo).
Well that was the case (current vs lts) today with someone with ETH drivers too, oddly.

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Ok thx, I’ll use 6.14, the newest kernel going forward.

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