[plug] Playng DVD on Mandrake 9.1

[John Knight]

Sorry, I wasn't using newbie speak before. What position is your DVD-ROM 
drive on? Secondary Master (hdc)? If so, try entering the following commands 
as root:

ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/cdrom
ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/dvd

Then see if things work, if it still doesn't happen, please tell us what 
happened (error wise) and I'lll see if I can help you out further. :)

Make lunch, not war.
>
>Hi
>I was wondering if anyone out there has played dvd's on Mandrake as i
>have no
>success with either Xine or Mplayer. My system has 2xHDD and a burner as
>well
>as a DVD. I don't know whether there is a conflict some where or not. i
>have
>looked into the /etc/fstab file but being relatively new to Linux it
>don't mean
>much to me. Any help would be greatly appreciated, so then i can get my
>5yr
>old off my back so he can use it. ( I hate holidays)
>Below is my fstab file in case there is anything wrong there.
>Thanks in advance.
>Richard Bowles
>
>/dev/hda5 / ext3 defaults 1 1
>none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
>none /mnt/cdrom2 supermount
>dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
>none /mnt/floppy supermount
>dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850,umask=0 0
>0
>none /mnt/hdc supermount
>dev=/dev/hdc,fs=auto,--,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,unhide,codepage=850,umask=0
>0 0
>/dev/hdb1 /mnt/windows vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
>none /proc proc defaults 0 0
>/dev/hda2 swap swap defaults 0 0
>

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