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 Message 10719 
 Alan Ianson to Aaron Thomas 
 Re: Mint 20 "Ulyana" 
 20 Jul 20 11:48:36 
 
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Aaron Thomas wrote to All:

AT> I upgraded to Mint 20 "Ulyana" without hesitating. I thought it would be 
AT> great, but shortly afterwards I noticed my CD/DVD ROM was no longer 
AT> working, and neither was my sound card.

I need to load the sg module lately to access the CD/DVD, I'm not sure why
or what changed.

Run (as root)..

modprobe sg

AT> On a fresh install, Mint has a bunch of quirks that I always needed to 
AT> hammer out. But not Ubuntu - it's smooth as can be.

Yep, that's true. On Ubuntu you may not even need to "modprobe sg", it might
be smart enough to just do that.

 Ttyl :-),
         Al

... It is broke. It will not work. It does not go.

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