On Saturday 15 November 2003 11:05, Krikket wrote:
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
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The symbolic link above is necessary, in my experience, if the DVD drive is setup as anything other than "/dev/dvd" by SuSE. On the desktop PC here, the DVD drive is setup as "/dev/hdb". The symbolic link had to setup as shown below to play DVDs. ln -s /dev/hdb /dev/dvd In the command above replace /dev/hdb with whatever device the DVD drive is allocated by SuSE. This information is available under Yast as explained above. Regards. LW999