On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Sick Twist wrote:
> >From: michael hast <evylrobot19@cox.net>
> >Reply-To: slug@nks.net
> >To: slug@nks.net
> >Subject: Re: [SLUG] playing dvd's
> >Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 21:43:42 -0600
> >
> >This is what I get:
> >
> >
> >/dev/hdc1 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
> >proc on /proc type proc (rw)
> >sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
> >devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
> >tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
> >/dev/hdd1 on /home type ext3 (rw)
> >usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)
> >/dev/hda on /media/cdrom1 type iso9660
> >(ro,noexec,nosuid,nodev,user=michael)
> >
> >Should I assume that the last line is my pertainent information here with
> >my Knoppix 4.0.1 dvd in the drive? If that means that I should have the
> >player reading from /dev/hda, then I've already done that. Unless I
> >straight-up did it wrong. --which is admittedly possible.
>
> Check the permissions for your DVD drive:
>
> ls -l /dev/hda
>
> You may find that the device offers read access only if you are a member of
> a particular group (e.g. cdrom).
That, or the version of mplayer you have is crippled and can't play DVDs.
Now that you know the correct device to use, go ahead and try the others.
But I'd check the device permissions first; that's an easy fix. If it works
for root but not for an ordinary user, that's an indicator of a permissions
problem somewhere.
But why do you have the DVD drive on the primary IDE bus, and the hard
drives on the secondary? Not that it's inefficient (AFAIK), just weird.
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