have a Macbook Pro 15, 2.16ghz. Tiger OS X 10.4.
I have a LG GW8040MA Rev 039 dvd player.
My problem is that no dvd icon appears when I insert a dvd. I have looked in applications but it is not there ?? could it be hiding somewhere else and why does it not pop up when a dvd is inserted.
Do regular CDs work? Do you hear the drive spinning? Have you tried the DVD in another player (other machine or regular player)? I've heard a number of people that have had problems with the CD/DVD drives in the MacBooks and ended up replacing them. Not sure if it was a bad batch or what. If nothing shows up (CD or DVD) or it seems to work erratically, I'd suggest taking it in to get it replaced (if under warranty).
I have the usual dvd "region" problems, I no longer get the messages related to this and so can not change regions anymore, but non protected dvd's and cd's seem to work in general. It is the missing dvd icon that I can not find , i was wondering if it is possible to re-load this module ?
The Finder can be setup to not show DVD icons. When the Finder is selected, goto the menu item Finder>Preferences. There will be a tab that controls how the desktop works, giving you the option to have hard drives, DVDs, CDs, servers and such show up on the desktop. If it is a blank disk, you need to open the System Preferences from under the Apple menu and click on the DVD/CD item, there you can set what the Mac does with blank disks. If it's set to ignore, then nothing will happen when you put one in.
Now, is this on the internal drive, or the external drive? Also for region setting, you only have a limited number of times that you can change the region, once you have reached it, the drive will always only open DVDs of the last region selected. That is part of the hardware of the drive, and once it's locked by reaching the limit, there is nothing you can do to change it, except replace it.
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