FC2 and dvd playback

[JoeyJoeJo]

Well, I can't blame it for sure on fc2. Recently I upgraded from fc1 to fc2 and then upgraded my kernel to 2.6.6. Just today I tried to play a dvd in xine, mplayer and ogle, but all said that /dev/dvd was not readable. /dev/dvd is a sym link to /dev/scd0. Everything worked fine before the upgrades. I've tried changing permissions, playing the dvd as both user and root, etc... Nothing works. If this ends up being a FC2 problem, I may be saying goodbye FC, and hello debian or Gentoo or something. It's just given me way to many headaches.

[MMYoung]

Are you still using SCSI emulation? If so, why? The 2.6.x kernels no longer require SCSI emulation for CD/DVD writing. If you aren't using SCSI emulation then the symlink is probably wrong.

Open a terminal, su to root, and type in:
dmesg | grep hd

If you see the standard stuff, i.e. hda, hdc, hdd, etc., then you aren't using emulation and you will need to delete the symlink and recreate it to the appropraite device.

Fer example, my dvd player is /dev/hdd. The orginal symlink was to /dev/sr0. I just removed it (rm /dev/dvd) and then recreated it, pointing it to the correct device (ln -s /dev/hdd /dev/dvd).

HTH,
MMYoung

[JoeyJoeJo]

Hmmm... Well, I guess thats my problem then. I didn't know they got rid of that. I'm glad they did... I didn't like it much. I'll try it and post my results.

<edit> Yup, making /dev/dvd -> /dev/hdc instead of /dev/scd0 worked like a charm!</edit>