I've had non-stop problems with my laptop and Windows validation etc (long story) recently so I've switched to Ubuntu. All of a suddenly it won't detect my dvd drive yet the hardware itself whirs into life as normal and then whirs back down after a minute or so, without any nasty noises etc. It seems to be ever since I updated the Ubuntu version. I've googled no end without success. I go into the bit a click on the cdrom icon in the filesystem and a blank folder comes up! Argh this is so annoying! Anyone good with Linux?