Fc4->FC6 no sound, CDROM or DVD detected

Douglas Phillipson phillipd at oem.doe.gov
Fri Dec 8 22:24:26 UTC 2006



Douglas Phillipson wrote:
> After a fresh install of FC6, my box hung on its first boot.  The 
> problem was the modprobe line in /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules:
> 
> ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="?*", ENV{MODALIAS}=="?*", 
> RUN+="/sbin/modprobe $env{MODALIAS}"
> 
> I commented this line out and the system booted fine, but I have some 
> laggnig problems like, no sound, and now I discover no CDROM/DVD devices 
> in dev.  After installing K3b, it found no writable devices, when FC4 
> did.  I assume it should be /dev/hdb as my hard drive is /dev/hda.  Has 
> any of this changed in FC6?
> 
> Why do I have to comment out this modprobe line in 50-udev.rules?
> 
> Thanks for the help...
> 
> Regards
> 
> Doug P
> 

How do I go about troubleshooting this issue?  I need to find out what 
device is hanging on the modprobe...

Thanks

Doug P




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