playing DVD with combo drive

[Markku Kolkka]

ashwin kesavan iyengar kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika 
sunnuntai, 31. lokakuuta 2004 21:06):
>      I downloaded xine player. It works fine with VCD but says
> error when DVD is played(something like drive not found). My
> DVD drive is actually a combo drive(CD-R,RW,ROM,DVD-ROM). My
> combo drive is LG-GCC-4521B. It is able to show the contents
> of the dvd. There was no /dev/dvd file in the /dev. The combo
> drive is indicated by cd-rom1. I hav another cd-rom drive
> which is shown as cd-rom. The combo drive is shown as
> /dev/hdc. how to play dvd with xine.

Create the /dev/dvd symlink:
ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/dvd

I have a LG-4120B combo drive and it works fine with Xine.

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 Markku Kolkka
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