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you have got ide-scsi emulation in use for that drive, if it is not a dvd/cdrw combo, then edit your bootloader config (lilo.conf / grub.conf) and remove the bit that probably says "hdc=ide=scsi" then it will be back to /dev/hdc and will load the dvd's fine.
You should include yourself as "normal user" into disk group by editing your /etc/group file adding your username at the occourence of the disk group.
It can also be done using Kuser
Hope this helps
Ciao
Originally posted by urka58 You should include yourself as "normal user" into disk group by editing your /etc/group file adding your username at the occourence of the disk group.
It can also be done using Kuser
Hope this helps
Ciao
i don't see how this is at all related to the problem described.
I think permissions may be your issue? First, verify the symlink between /dev/dvd and /dev/scd0. It shouldn't matter about the scsi emulation. I have a DVD (non-writer) that uses scsi emulation, and it plays DVD's just fine. Second, try ejecting /dev/dvd. type:
eject /dev/dvd
Post what error you get. I'll bet your permissions for /dev/dvd are restricting it. You can either change chmod /dev/dvd or chown /dev/dvd to a group that you're a member of.
I also thought of something else pretty important. Are you watching encrypted DVD's? Chances are, you are. Do you have libdvdcss2 installed? That's the only way to decrypt your DVD's.
I'm currently using Slackware 9.1 on my PC as main operating system. Yesterday, I tried to play back a dvd, that I got from my girlfriend (Three colours : Blue). I've installed libdvdcss
(version libdvdcss-1.2.8-i486-1rob.tgz from www.linuxpackages.net), xine and the other usual suspects (libdvdread, libdvdnav) and I have already watched several DVD's on my Computer (some of them were CSSed) without problems.
But yesterday, right from the start, the picture was flacky, tiles in arbitrary colours were moving around and after approx. 30 sec. XINE abortet the playback.
The DVD is OK, I verified this with my brothers WinXP box and my standalone DVD-Player,
my girlfriend also had the same problems with this DVD (and similar problems with another DVD) on her Computer (a customized Mandrake 9.1 box with libdvdcss2 and Mplayer as Playback software).
I would be very grateful, if somebody could tell me if this is a known limit of the DVD playback capabilities of Linux and/or if there is anything, that I can do to solve this problems.
Best Regards
Martin
PS.: Please apologize my English, I am (as you have probably already found out :-) ) no native
speaker (but I try to improve ;-) )
Perhaps it is a combination of the particular DVD and your DVD reader? I can't watch some DVDs on my computer, but they work fine in a DVD player and vice versa. From what you wrote, I assume that other DVDs work fine on your computer?
I'd suggest it might just be the DVD then. I can't watch the Matrix on mine. Bizarre? I can't watch it on my DVD player either though. Apparently, the DVD has some feature that the player just can't handle, or it requires a software upgrade to fix. Just never bothered with it.
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