Guest LinuxExplorer Posted December 1, 2002 Report Share Posted December 1, 2002 I was just curious if anyone knew how to remount the DVD correctly. I haven't tried to use it as a DVD player, but after looking into it I don't think mine is recognized correctly. Its an old Creative 5X DVD drive. When MDK9 was first installed I Think it showed up correctly but after the supermount issue its not showing the hardware information in Mandrake Control Center. The drive itself isn't mounted as a DVD either. Its mounted as CDROM2 now. Even under the /dev directory, there isn't a dvd link. Is there any way to revert the settings back? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest tarheeltux Posted December 1, 2002 Report Share Posted December 1, 2002 I wouldn't worry about there not being a /dev/dvd link. That's easy enough to fix. It's also typical for the drives to actually be mounted at /mnt/cdrom1 or /mnt/cdrom2. Anyway, what have you tried to mount in the drive? Meaning, have you put a data cd in the drive and tried to access it? What exactly are your errors? You should also copy and paste your /etc/fstab here. That will help solve any problems you may be having. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LinuxExplorer Posted December 2, 2002 Report Share Posted December 2, 2002 The only reason I brought this up is because neither of the media players I've tried will read the DVD drive correctly. I've troubleshot Ogle and Xine. Yes, I already have the DVD CSS files associated and installed for both. For example, when I try to Open Disc from within Ogle, this is what I get: vm: faild to open/read the DVD Debug[ogle_ctrl]: child: 11722 exited with 1 Debug[ogle_ctrl]: pid: 11722 exited with status: 1 Debug[ogle_ctrl]: child: 11724 killed Debug[ogle_ctrl]: pid: 11724 terminated on signal: 2 Debug[ogle_ctrl]: child: 11723 killed Debug[ogle_ctrl]: pid: 11723 terminated on signal: 2 Debug[ogle_ctrl]: child: 11721 killed Debug[ogle_ctrl]: pid: 11721 terminated on signal: 2 Debug[ogle_ctrl]: removing shmid: 33292308 Note[ogle_ctrl]: exiting This is my fstab file contents (I turned supermount back on): /dev/hdf1 / ext3 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hdf6 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 none /mnt/cdrom2 supermount dev=/dev/cdrom,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hdf5 swap swap defaults 0 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted December 2, 2002 Report Share Posted December 2, 2002 Disable supermount. It is only there to make you guess at what is on the disk! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest tarheeltux Posted December 2, 2002 Report Share Posted December 2, 2002 It looks like there is no dvd link. So, go to a console and type "su" then your root password. Then: cd /dev ln -sf /dev/cdrom /dev/dvd The /dev/cdrom should be the device that corresponds to your dvd drive. I couldn't tell for sure by your fstab, but it looks like the /dev/scd0 is the cdrw which I think would make your dvd the /dev/cdrom. That should create a link to the dvd at /dev/dvd. Since Ogle and Xine look for /dev/dvd this link needs to be there for those apps to work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LinuxExplorer Posted December 2, 2002 Report Share Posted December 2, 2002 Thanks! :D That worked. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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