Hello, I'm having some difficultly getting my DVD-ROM working and I thought I'd check to see if anyone has any tips. I just installed the newest SuSE (8.1) on my desktop (first Linux to break-in this particular computer). It appears that the DVD is being detected and set-up properly (via boot-up kernel messages), but I'm unable to mount dvds (or cds) let alone watch them (I've only tried mplayer so far). Here's a snip of /var/log/boot.msg <4> ide0: BM-DMA at 0xb800-0xb807, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA <4> ide1: BM-DMA at 0xb808-0xb80f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA <4>hda: Maxtor 4D080H4, ATA DISK drive <4>hdb: WDC AC36400L, ATA DISK drive <4>hdc: CDD4851 CD-R/RW, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive <4>hdd: PIONEER DVD-ROM DVD-116 ATAPI Model 012, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive <4>ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 <4>ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 ---snip--- <4>hdc: no flushcache support <4>hdd: no flushcache support <6>scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices <4> Vendor: PHILIPS Model: CDD4851 CD-R/RW Rev: C3.7 <4> Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 <4> Vendor: PIONEER Model: DVD-ROM DVD-116 Rev: 1.21 <4> Type: CD-ROM The CD-R is set to hdc and works fine, however, the DVD at hdd doesn't mount dvds, cds, and I cannot 'eject'. $ eject /media/dvd eject: unable to eject, last error: Input/output error Here's fstab: /dev/dvd /media/dvd auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 And the device link $ ls -l /dev/dvd lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 2002-09-24 20:52 /dev/dvd -> /dev/hdd And when I attempt to mount: $ mount /media/dvd/ /dev/dvd: Input/output error mount: I could not determine the filesystem type, and none was specified mplayer poops out like this (Note: dvd not mounted - doesn't need to be, right?): $ mplayer -dvd 1 -dvd-device /dev/dvd MPlayer 0.90pre8-3.2 (C) 2000-2002 Arpad Gereoffy (see DOCS) CPU: Intel Pentium 4 Willamette (Family: 8, Stepping: 10) CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1 Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE SSE2 Reading /home/hp/.mplayer/codecs.conf: 38 audio & 106 video codecs Font /home/hp/.mplayer/font/font.desc loaded successfully! (206 chars) Using Linux hardware RTC timing (1024Hz) Input config file /home/hp/.mplayer/input.conf parsed : 50 binds Setting up lirc support... mplayer: could not connect to socket mplayer: Connection refused Failed opening lirc support! You won't be able to use your remote control Playing DVD title 1 Reading disc structure, please wait... libdvdread: Can't open file VIDEO_TS.IFO. Can't open VMG info! Exiting... (End of file) This dvd doesn't even spin when attempting to run mplayer, so I think it's not the viewer's problem (since I can't mount/eject dvds in the first place). I'm really stumped as it appears (to me anyway) that the dvd is being set up properly by the kernel. I browsed the DVD-HOWTO, but it seems a tad out-of-date. Anyway, if anyone can steer me in the right direction, I'd be much obliged. Thanks for reading all this! Eric Pierce __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Faith Hill - Exclusive Performances, Videos & More http://faith.yahoo.com