I have an Asus laptop running Fedora 43 with GNOME, and I'm having a hard time getting my built-in DVD drive to play movies. I tried inserting 'Kill Bill Vol. 1', but it seems like the drive isn't recognizing the disc—it makes some noise but nothing else happens. The Disks utility keeps saying there's 'no media' in the CD/DVD drive. I've followed some advice I found online, like ensuring my user has access to the CD-ROM, running the command to install multimedia codecs, and I've got libdvdcss installed. However, when I open VLC and try to access the disc, I get an error saying it can't open `/dev/sr0`. The logs show various read errors like 'No medium found' and 'Can't open /dev/sr0 for reading'. This laptop is older, and since switching from Windows 10 to Linux recently, I haven't tested the DVD drive before. I'm wondering if it might be a hardware issue. Any guidance would be greatly appreciated!
3 Answers
Good call on getting a USB drive! I suggest running some tests with that once it arrives. If it works, then it's likely your built-in drive might have gone bad.
It sounds like a hardware issue since you're getting 'no medium found' errors instead of permission problems. If you can, try using a USB DVD drive to see if that works? It might help confirm the issue with your built-in drive.
Aside from checking your DVD drive, you might also want to make sure the discs are fine. Have you tried playing a different DVD? Sometimes, it could be the disc itself that's the issue.
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