Hi there, I'm still trying to get dvd's to play in Debian. Has anyone of you experience in that area? The think is I've managed to use everything i need in Debian, and I don't want to install Windows in the other partition just to see DVD's
Hope you can help Alejandro On Tue, 7 Sep 2004 21:51:05 +0300, Alejandro Matos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok, let's see: > > $ ls -l /dev/hdd > brw-rw---- 1 root cdrom 22, 64 2004-07-22 22:54 /dev/hdd > > $ ls -l /dev/dvd > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 2004-09-07 14:22 /dev/dvd -> /dev/hdd > > $ groups > alejandro dialout cdrom floppy audio video > > Well, i could see a dvd for only 24 secs and nothing more, no audio. > Then i changed the dvd and i can't see it anymore, the message is > this: > > "couldn't open /dev/dvd" > > Hope that someone can help :) > > Thanks > > Alejandro > > > > > On Tue, 7 Sep 2004 14:51:18 +0100, Steven Satelle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 7 Sep 2004 15:32:28 +0200, Philippe Marzouk > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 04:14:12PM +0300, Alejandro Matos wrote: > > > > I tried with xine but it says something about "dvd:/" don't understand > > > > that :-\ > > > > > > > > > > Do you have a /dev/dvd link to the device of your dvd drive ? > > > > > > You can verify with > > > ls -l /dev/dvd > > > > > > If it does not exist you can create it (as root) > > > cd /dev > > > ln -s hdc dvd > > > (replace hdc with the actual device of your dvd drive, hdc is for > > > secondary master). > > > > > > Philippe > > > > > > > > dont forget to change the group of the link. by default it will be > > root change it to cdrom or video, and make sure you are a member of > > the needed group. If it still wont work change the group on the device > > - /dev/hdc or whatever it is to video (or cdrom) > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
