On Sat, 15 Nov 2003, LinuxWorld999 wrote:
On Saturday 15 November 2003 04:22, Krikket wrote: <snip>
I'm at a loss here. Any ideas/suggestions/thoughts on how to get my DVD functionallity back?
Thanks in advance!
Krikket
If you are using a combo drive emulating a scsi drive, the device will be set as /drv/srX, where X=0,1 or another integer. On a Toshiba laptop which has a combo drive, /dev/dvd was set up a symbolic link pointing to the /dev/srX device.
For example, assume that the combo drive is set to /dev/sr0. This can be checked by running the "Hardware Information" icon in YaST2. Run the following command on a shell command line :
ln -s /dev/sr0 /dev/dvd
After this the software dvd players should recognise the drive and play dvd. This solution worked on the PC here.
It worked. Will I need to do this after every login, or need to place it in a global .config or .profile somewhere? Or is that all that needs to be done? I was getting all prepared to email you back and say, "Nope. Not it. I should have said earlier, I have a Memorex drive hooked up via IDE." Then I thought better of it, and checked anyway. Even though I was *completely* certain there's no SCSI anywhere in my system. It *does* emulate a SCSI drive after all... That was the last thing I was expecting! I still don't get the nifty words "DVD" appearing on the icon for the CD-R when a DVD is in the drive, but in all honesty, I don't care about that. And now, I have another minor question, that's related to the save drive (but this time in RW function)... Does anyone know how to shut off the "feature" that tells K3b to run anytime a blank CD is placed into the drive? Thanks again! Krikket