i installed dvd shrink through wine when i open the program up ,all looks good untill i select the dvd drive from the drop down menu,this is what i get........


faild to initialize ASPI Device


any help would be great.thanks

Run winecfg and set your Windows version to XP.

thanks for the reply , im not shure how to set my windows to xp,could you give me a hint...thanks again..

Open a terminal window (or use the "Run Application" menu item), and enter the command "winecfg" (without the quotes). When the application opens, you'll see a box at the bottom that says "Windows Version". Select "Windows XP", then click on the "OK" button.

thanks i changed it to xp thanks for the tip, but now i get...



Failed to read file "E:\"

not read




thats what i get when i select the dvd drive from the dropdown menu....thanks for the help

Issue the command:

ls -l ~/.wine/dosdevices/

Is the symbolic link to e: pointing to your dvd drive? If not, re-run winecfg and update it.

this is what i get when i enter the command....




jody@linux:~> ls -l ~/.wine/dosdevices/
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 jody users 13 2005-10-18 04:38 a: -> /media/floppy
lrwxrwxrwx 1 jody users 8 2005-10-18 04:38 a:: -> /dev/fd0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 jody users 10 2005-10-18 04:38 c: -> ../drive_c
lrwxrwxrwx 1 jody users 10 2005-10-18 04:38 com1 -> /dev/ttyS0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 jody users 10 2005-10-18 04:38 com2 -> /dev/ttyS1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 jody users 10 2005-10-18 04:38 com3 -> /dev/ttyS2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 jody users 10 2005-10-18 04:38 com4 -> /dev/ttyS3
lrwxrwxrwx 1 jody users 17 2005-10-18 04:38 d: -> /media/cdrecorder
lrwxrwxrwx 1 jody users 15 2005-10-18 04:38 d:: -> /dev/cdrecorder
lrwxrwxrwx 1 jody users 18 2005-10-18 04:38 e: -> /media/dvdrecorder
lrwxrwxrwx 1 jody users 16 2005-10-18 04:38 e:: -> /dev/dvdrecorder
lrwxrwxrwx 1 jody users 10 2005-10-18 06:42 f: -> /windows/C
lrwxrwxrwx 1 jody users 21 2005-10-18 04:38 f:: -> /dev/K3b_data_project
lrwxrwxrwx 1 jody users 13 2005-10-18 06:42 g: -> /proc/bus/usb
lrwxrwxrwx 1 jody users 10 2005-10-18 06:42 h: -> /subdomain
lrwxrwxrwx 1 jody users 8 2005-10-18 04:38 lpt1 -> /dev/lp0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 jody users 4 2005-10-18 04:38 x: -> /tmp
lrwxrwxrwx 1 jody users 10 2005-10-18 04:38 y: -> /home/jody
lrwxrwxrwx 1 jody users 1 2005-10-18 04:38 z: -> /
jody@linux:~>



what do i do from here,sorry for all the questions,but im learning...thanks

Display the contents of your /etc/fstab, to confirm that /dev/dvdrecorder and /media/dvdrecorder are defined:

cat /etc/fstab

Also, verify that /dev/dvdrecorder is linked to the correct device:

ls -l /dev/dvdrecorder

jody@linux:~> cat /etc/fstab
/dev/hdb2 / reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/hda1 /windows/C vfat users,gid=users,umask=0002,utf8=true 0 0
/dev/hdb1 swap swap defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
/dev/dvdrecorder /media/dvdrecorder subfs noauto,fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0
/dev/cdrecorder /media/cdrecorder subfs noauto,fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy subfs noauto,fs=floppyfss,procuid,nodev,nosuid,sync 0 0
none /subdomain subdomainfs noauto 0 0
jody@linux:~>
jody@linux:~>
jody@linux:~>
jody@linux:~>
jody@linux:~>
jody@linux:~> ls -l /dev/dvdrecorder
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2005-10-18 06:25 /dev/dvdrecorder -> hdc
jody@linux:~>



This is what i got ,does this mean that my dvd is seen as harddrive c....thanks so much..

Everything looks good; the hdc means the third IDE drive "address" (hda, hdb, hdc, ...). The name relates to the position on the IDE cable, not the number of drives.

The next check is to make sure you have the CSS library:

rpm -q libdvdcss

If not, you will need to install it for your distribution.