Estou com o mesmo problema, só que é mais específico: no ubuntu 9.10 o dvdrw funcionava, agora no 10.04 e no 10.10 tudo funciona menos "cd normal de áudio", quando coloco um no drive aparece:
Não foi possível montar Disco de Áudio: A localização não está montada.
Praticamente todos os programas que tocam cd não funcionam dando erro de montagem/localização. Já cds como o do ubuntu funcionam normal, assim como dvds e afins.
alessandro@alessandro-Ubuntu:~$ sudo mount -t iso9660 /dev/sr0 /media/cdrom
mount: dispositivo de blocos /dev/sr0 é protegido contra gravação; montando somente para leitura
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sr0,
missing codepage or helper program, or other error
Em alguns casos informações úteis são encontradas no syslog - tente
"dmesg | tail" ou algo do tipo
alessandro@alessandro-Ubuntu:~$ dmesg | tail
[ 1311.816672] Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 2141151
[ 1311.816674] Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 2141152
[ 1311.816676] Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 2141153
[ 1368.066943] cdrom: sr0: mrw address space DMA selected
[ 1368.210080] sr 4:0:0:0: [sr0] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE
[ 1368.210084] sr 4:0:0:0: [sr0] Sense Key : Illegal Request [current]
[ 1368.210087] sr 4:0:0:0: [sr0] Add. Sense: Illegal mode for this track
[ 1368.210091] sr 4:0:0:0: [sr0] CDB: Read(10): 28 00 00 00 00 10 00 00 01 00
[ 1368.210097] end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 64
[ 1368.210115] isofs_fill_super: bread failed, dev=sr0, iso_blknum=16, block=16
alessandro@alessandro-Ubuntu:~$ ls -l /dev/{cd,dvd,scd,sr}*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2010-10-19 03:05 /dev/cdrom -> sr0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2010-10-19 03:05 /dev/cdrw -> sr0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2010-10-19 03:05 /dev/dvd -> sr0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2010-10-19 03:05 /dev/dvdrw -> sr0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2010-10-19 03:05 /dev/scd0 -> sr0
brw-rw----+ 1 root cdrom 11, 0 2010-10-19 03:05 /dev/sr0
alessandro@alessandro-Ubuntu:~$ sudo lshw -c cdrom
*-cdrom
description: DVD-RAM writer
product: CD/DVDW SH-S182D
vendor: TSSTcorp (Samsung)
physical id: 0.0.0
bus info: scsi@4:0.0.0
logical name: /dev/cdrom
logical name: /dev/cdrw
logical name: /dev/dvd
logical name: /dev/dvdrw
logical name: /dev/scd0
logical name: /dev/sr0
version: SB07
capabilities: removable audio cd-r cd-rw dvd dvd-r dvd-ram
configuration: ansiversion=5 status=ready
*-medium
physical id: 0
logical name: /dev/cdrom