On Sunday 29 June 2003 03:07, LinuxWorld999 wrote:
Recently, there has been a lot of discussion regarding the playing of DVD's on a combo dvd/cdrw drives. SuSE 8.2 was installed on a Toshiba Satellite with a combo drive. The install itself went without a hitch but movies on a DVD disc would not play. Mplayer files from Packman's site were downloaded and installed but Mplayer would not even start.
After some research, Ed Harrison's mail to this forum provided a solution. The link to this post is :
http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2003-Apr/3850.html.
In brief, the modules "cdrom ide-cd ide-scsi" have to be loaded. A file called "/dev/dvd" has to be created as a symbolic link to the combo drive. For example, on the pc here the drive is set up by SuSE as "/dev/sr0". The file "/dev/dvd" is a symbolic link to the sr0 file.
I have a Sony VAIO laptop, with a Sony DVD/CD-RW combo drive. Under 8.1 I had to use the ide-scsi module to access the drive in any form; since I updated to 8.2, I'm only using ATAPI (ide-cd) mode, and everything works much better. I downloaded all the Xine add-on libs from packman.links2linux.de, and I can watch DVD movies without having to load ide-scsi. My /dev/dvd, /dev/cdrom and /dev/cdrecorder are now all symlinks to /dev/hdc, and performance is much better. I did use the ELEVATOR_READ_LATENCY tweak mentioned on this list, and yesterday I found a note about creating a link to the "raw" device which solved some issues I had playing a few DVDs (they were choppy even though others played fine). The only thing I have not gotten to work so far is Kscd, although since Xmms works fine for me it really doesn't matter. Mark Almeida -- Powered by SuSE Linux 8.2/Kmail 1.5.2