Re: External DVD player for Linux

I bought an external DVD player for my old IBM Thinkpad. I've just tried it on my desktop and it was a bit of a fight to get it working. It didn't show up anywhere to start with. Then I ran my configuration manager and set it to mount removable drives, to mount removable media, and to brouse removable media. After logging out and in again, still nothing. I used Thunar to look at the computer and it now listed a second optical drive. Then I inserted a disk, waited for the little light to stop flashing, an...