On Saturday 22 Sep 2001 21:18, Chris Edwards wrote:
> I was trying out VideoLAN (after downloading and installing libcss from
> videolan.org) and was having a few problems playing the dvd... When
> looking for the dvd drive, it was looking in /dev/dvd. I have a dvd
> drive, but it is mounted to /mnt/cdrom (/dev/cdroms/cdrom0). Does this
> mean that it only installed it as a cd drive instead of a dvd drive? I'm
> using a Toshiba 6x DVD drive in an Dell Inspiron 7500. When I tried to
> load the dvd from /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 or /mnt/cdrom, videolan would do
> nothing....
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> -Chris
As root, make a link from your cdrom device to /dev/dvdrom, for example:
ln -s /dev/cdrom /dev/dvd
or ln -s /dev/scd0 /dev/dvd
--
Peter Ruskin, Wrexham, Wales.
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