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Old 10-04-2008, 10:43 PM   #1
Slimmay
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EEE PC External DVD drive not working


Hi guys,

I am running an Asus Eee PC 4G laptop, with the default Xandros as my OS. I bought an External DVD drive so I can watch DVDs on this PC while traveling. I plugged it in and I can hear it load but then it stops. I wait and wait and wait. So, I went to where it's mounted (/home/user/) and only there is a picture with a broken link and below it it says Storage Media. So I click on that and it Says: 'You do not have permission to run Storage Media'. So now I run file manager as super user and it says the same thing! I have installed libdvdcss and libdvdcss2. What could be wrong?

Thanks!
 
Old 10-04-2008, 11:32 PM   #2
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Hi,

Simple question? Did you reboot with the external drive connected?
 
Old 10-05-2008, 07:49 AM   #3
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Yup. Rebooting does the same thing.
 
Old 10-05-2008, 06:27 PM   #4
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Hi,

What groups do you belong to as the user? You should be in the; users floppy audio video cdrom plugdev groups.

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