On Tue, 04 Dec 2001 22:13:32 -0500 kbb0927@cs.com wrote:
Hello All,
I have search around and I cannot figure how to use my new DVD drive under Linux.
I have SuSE 7.3 Pro with xine-0.9.4 installed. I have a i810 Celeron mobo w/Celeron 366 CPU and kde 2.2.1 installed. I have an ide CDROM @ /dev/hdb and a 10X DVD @ /dev/hdd. I have put a movie in the DVD drive, but it will not play nor is it recognized under xine. I have put hdd=ide-scsi on the command line and have ide-scsi module installed. The start up messages show the DVD @ /dev/hdd. I have symlinked /dev/hdd to /dev/dvd (or should this be rdvd?).
What or where is a step x step to show how to get this running? I am tired of the choppiness of windows PowerDVD 3.0 and am hoping Linux is a better choice for viewing DVD's.
Thanks in advance.
Keith B.
You don't need SCSI emulation to play DVDs with your IDE DVD reader. I
suggest you to remove the hdd=ide-scsi from you lilo conf and not to
load the ide-scsi module unless it is needed for a IDE burner.
You can create a symlynk from /dev/rdvd to /dev/raw1 and add "raw
/dev/raw1 /dev/dvd" to your boot.local file and to set DMA on for your
DVD drive with a "hdparm -c 1 -d 1 /dev/hdd" on the same file.
HTH, regards...
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Jean-François Bocquet