DVD Drive Problem

digitaldeity · 08-20-2003, 03:29 AM

I have 2 cd drives one burner and one DVD drive but slack only sees my burner ( im guessin cuz thats the drive i installed slack with?!? ) I also like cant mount my DVD drive???!!!??? There is nothing to mount!!! I right click create new cd device and under the tab where it is there is not DVD thingy or cdrom2 or whatever it is...HELP!!! I wanna watch movies!
Thanks!!!

sorry bout all the Posts in shuch a SHORT amout of time!

acid_kewpie · 08-20-2003, 03:46 AM

well just try and mount it directly using the ide device...

Code:

mount /dev/hdd /mnt/dvd

for example. if it *IS* hdd of course... i.e. secondary slave. if that works then you might also want to create a useful symlink:

Code:

ln -s /dev/hdd /dev/dvd

also you can copy an entry in /etc/fstab to allow user mounting... you certainly don't need to mount a drive to watch DVD's...

I natually have no idea what program you are using.... "create new cd device"...? what is that...?? we're not psychic.

digitaldeity · 08-20-2003, 03:50 AM

When you right click go to create or new ( whatever it is ) its the top one, in there you can create a new cd device and then tell it where its mounted or whatever...
I will try those codes and see if they work!

acid_kewpie · 08-20-2003, 04:02 AM

right click on what.....? KDE? Gnome? some other miscellaneous cd burner or something? We aren't using your computer... we don't know what you run unless you tell us.

digitaldeity · 08-20-2003, 04:11 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by acid_kewpie
right click on what.....? KDE? Gnome? some other miscellaneous cd burner or something? We aren't using your computer... we don't know what you run unless you tell us.

When you right click on the desktop! Im using KDE on Slackware 9

gonzalezeb · 01-26-2004, 08:19 AM

Here is what I did...

mkdir /mnt/dvd
mount /dev/hdd /mnt/dvd

Then in XINE change the input from /dev/dvd to/dev/hdd....

It worked for me with the same setup...Slackware 9, KDE, XINE...

Good Luck

acid_kewpie · 01-26-2004, 08:21 AM

good luck? this thread is 5 months old.. i very much doubt this is still an issue......