Joe Brandt wrote:
>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.
>
>
No, it's a desktop. It's a 2.4GH P4 and I've got a cd-burner and a
dvd+-rw in it. For whatever reason, Debian calls the dvd burner a
"cdrom." When I look in "/dev", I don't see cdrom, dvd, or hda. When I
go through the file manager, beside the icon, it says, "CD-ROM (hda)
[/media/cdrom1]". Beside the cd burner, "CD-ROM (hdb)
[/media/cdrom0]". Trying your creating a link now...
...and now, on the little control deal, it shows to be reading hda1, but
when I press play, it gives an error, "Failed to open /dev/hda1". I
even tried this particular dvd in my wife's computer and it played under
Kaffeine. I Googled for how-to's and checked the man-pages, and I
couldn't see anything that inspired me on this one. I dunno.
-- --Michael Hast (the evyl robot) I'm not picking my nose. I'm pulling things out of it.----------------------------------------------------------------------- This list is provided as an unmoderated internet service by Networked Knowledge Systems (NKS). Views and opinions expressed in messages posted are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of NKS or any of its employees.
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