Xine under Fedora Core 2

Peter Silcock smallcreep at quista.net
Sun Jun 13 12:24:23 UTC 2004


I also have brw against /dev/hdc with a symbolic link from /dev/dvd.  My 
problem was that I didn't remove the ide=scsi option from grub.conf when 
I upgraded from FC1.  Once I removed that everything was fine (almost) - 
though I don't use kaffeine.

Peter Silcock

Ian Hilliard wrote:

> Has anyone been able to get xine / kaffeine running under Fedora Core 
> 2. I have been looking at the problem for a couple of days now. The 
> problem appears to be with accessing the DVD drive. Mplayer on the 
> other hand has no problems.
>
> I'm sure that I am just missing something. I first installed fedora 
> over my RH9 installation and xine worked very well. Unfortunately the 
> installation was such a train wreck in so many other areas. Now 
> kaffeine believes that it has insufficient rights to access the drive 
> although ls -l indicates that /dev/hdc is brw------- . I figure that 
> should be sufficient.
>
> Does anyone have an idea where else to look for the problem?
>
> Ian 






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