On Tuesday 26 November 2002 17.28, John Pettigrew wrote:
I've changed the DVD drive on my SuSE 8.1 system to be IDE instead of SCSI emulated, and enabled DMA. Now, the system doesn't lock when I try to access the drive with DMA turned on :-)
However, even though I can mount data CDs and even DVD movie discs in this drive, I can't play movies - even the same disk I've just mounted (when it's not mounted, of course!). MPlayer complains "Couldn't open DVD device: /dev/dvd", and xine just does nothing. I've linked /dev/hdc (the DVD drive) explicitly to /dev/dvd ("ln -sf /dev/hdc /dev/dvd") but the same thing happens. (It was linked to /dev/sr0 before I got rid of ide-scsi on this drive.)
Why might this be?
"mount" is suid, so it's run as root even though you're logged in as a regular user. xine and mplayer, on the other hand, run as your user. Briefly put, check the permissions on /dev/hdc and make sure your user has enough permissions to use it Anders