Well, this is odd. It happens regardless of which DVD I put in the tray.
Initially, openSUSE recognizes that the DVD is, in fact, there. I go to any one media player, play the DVD, and exit when I’m done.
And then the DVD is gone. As far as openSUSE is concerned, anyway. I cannot eject the tray to remove the DVD, which prompts a total reboot.
Is there any way to dispose of this problem?
I might suggest that since openSUSE does in fact work properly with DVD players, you may have a hardware problem. The first issue that comes up is dust build up in the drive. On most PC’s (if we can assume this is not a laptop), the main cooling fan is sucking air from the case and exhausting out the back. This then causes air to come in the front, including around the CD tray, bringing in and depositing dust everywhere in the drive. The older the unit, the more dust that you will have. You need a can of dust spray to use with the CD tray open, and spray out any dust you can find. On any CD or DVD, make sure it it is free of finger prints, another thing that can cause CD/DVD ROM drive problems. I can’t tell you how often I found a large finger print on a DVD, that caused it to stop working.
Now if the blowing out dust and eliminating finger prints (on every DVD you have tried so far) does not help, you got to consider you might have a bad CD/DVD ROM drive. I wish I could tell you how many times over the years that CD ROM drives have went bad on systems I take care of. Heat, Dust and I would add Cheapness (if that is a word) take their toll over time. Here in Austin, Fry’s sells DVD drives for $40 that do everything but read Blu-Ray disks and for $90, you can add reading Blu-Ray disks to the features. Do not be afraid of changing out a DVD player if you think it might be bad.
Thank You,
gogo7775 wrote:
> Is there any way to dispose of this problem?
open a terminal, type in and enter an:
eject
but, that is not to say that everything mentioned about dust etc is
wrong, it is not…just eject should open the drawer, unless yours
is…well, not all drives will react…in which case, get a new one…
or, another way to do it: you wrote “I go to any one media player,
play the DVD, and exit when I’m done.” so, don’t exit…instead check
the media playre and see if there is an eject in the menu somewhere…
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Apologies for the late reply, but it would seem that attempting to enable 3d acceleration with my nvidia card resulted in openSUSE breaking beyond repair, thus necessitating an entirely new install. It was a nice little adventure, but it’s for another thread.
I’ve tried that, and received an apparently not uncommon response about /dev/sda1 being busy, or something along those lines. No success troubleshooting from there, however. I will go along with jdmcdaniel3’s suggestions and see what luck I have. 
Is it SATA or IDE?
If sata, what is the sata mode in BIOS: SATA or AHCI?
My system (oS11.1 KDE3.5) had problems recognizing/ejecting the CDs/DVDs after I changed sata mode in bios to ahci. Changing it back to SATA made no difference to the other sata drives (three HDs).
Might be worth to check.