> 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
>
Still not working.... have tried a few variants of the above
ln -s /dev/cdrom0 /dev/dvd
this above one was a successful link (/dev/dvd went to dvd drive), but vlc
still doesn't do anything when i try to load a video.
-Chris
