[plug] Playng DVD on Mandrake 9.1

[richard bowles]

Thanks all. I used the PLF and that fixed up the problem. Thanks once again 
for helping
Richard Bowles 



On Tue, 8 Jul 2003 06:21 pm, Scott Middleton wrote:
> Don't forget /dev/vcd for the odd vcd or svcd  :)
>
> On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 17:10, John Knight wrote:
> > 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,uma
> > >sk=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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