USB DVD Player no longer found

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It stopped working after one of the updates a while ago (sorry, can’t remember last time I used it). My system does seem to see the device, but it doesn’t map it to /dev/sr0 or anything.

dmesg output:

[22114.674589] usb 3-2.4: new high-speed USB device number 7 using xhci_hcd
[22114.771398] usb 3-2.4: New USB device found, idVendor=0e8d, idProduct=1887, bcdDevice= 0.00
[22114.771404] usb 3-2.4: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[22114.771406] usb 3-2.4: Product: Portable Super Multi Drive
[22114.771407] usb 3-2.4: Manufacturer: Hitachi-LG Data Storage Inc
[22114.771408] usb 3-2.4: SerialNumber: M07M5P63700
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Do you have the needed packages?

pacman -Qs libdvd

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

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They appear to be installed.

local/libdvdcss 1.4.3-1
    Portable abstraction library for DVD decryption
local/libdvdnav 6.1.1-2
    Library to navigate DVD video disks
local/libdvdread 6.1.3-2
    Library for reading DVD video disks
4

With no other guesses I might try different kernels.
Maybe you have switched to a newer series in the interim and that is the difference?
If so … try booting into, ex, linux61 and checking the status there.

5

Hmm… that’s a good idea. I’m in 6.6, might try 6.1 after work today.