On Tuesday 17 January 2006 11:14 pm, michael hast wrote:
> Hey, all.
>
> I'm running Debian 3.1 on kernel 2.6, and apparently, I don't know
> how to configure a media player to play a dvd from my dvd rom. I just
> installed mplayer, and it will not play video dvd's in it's current
> configuration. I told it to look in /media/cdrom1, as per my file
> manager, and it doesn't seem to see anything there. Out of sheer morbid
> curiosity, I tried a couple of different dvd's and a couple of different
> players--eg. XMMS, Kaffeine, Noatun, etc.--still to no avail. I'm
> tapped out here. Do any of you have any clue what I might not be doing
> right here? Thanks.
I am assuming you have a laptop with a combo drive. That would explain
looking for a dvd in cdrom1
as root create a link
ln -s /dev/dvd /media/cdrom1
That fixed it for me, hope it helps you.
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