The problem where my DVD movies were not being recognized by Edgy and spawning Totem (this worked in Dapper) has somehow resolved itself. The steps I took they may have impacted this were to change the DVD's jumper (the Master/Slave/Auto ones) from the second to the first (towards the redbook audio cable). After a second reboot (my first reboot had the DVD's remain unrecognized), I was able to see DVD labels on the desktop and Totem would be spawned automatically to begin viewing the movie.
It is interesting that in order for me to install Edgy, I had to change the jumper from Auto to Master (or what I thought was master) because in Auto mode, the Edgy install would fail and I would notice I/O Errors on /dev/hdc. -- hal detects written DVD as empty https://launchpad.net/bugs/14692 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
