On Sun, 2005-09-18 at 08:29 +1000, larinia wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > Please help me. I have debian installed on my laptop, the unstable > version. I have been trying to get xine working for a long time, but I > never managed. My machine is voyage 64 3200+ A list from Evesham. > > The following is the output from dmesg: > > ATAPI device hdc: > Error: Not ready -- (Sense key=0x02) > Incompatible medium installed -- (asc=0x30, ascq=0x00) > The failed "Read Cd/Dvd Capacity" packet command was: > "25 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 " > > Does anyone know what is wrong with xine, or is it my machine. > > Thanks. > > Larinia > > Without wanting to appear rude, a bit of research is a good idea! I found a few links immediately courtesy of google that talk a bit about it. Firstly the google search link:
http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=Incompatible +medium+installed+--+%28asc%3D0x30%2C+ascq%3D0x00%29&btnG=Google +Search&meta= and these are some of the more interesting hits: http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=64388 http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/topic-50479.html https://listman.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2005-August/msg00170.html http://staff.washington.edu/hornung/linux/archive/html/msg01168.html http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?threadid=353749 A few questions, do other DVDs work in this drive? Do the DVDs in question work in a known working DVD drive? What is the output of lspci? You could try updating the firmware on the drive itself, but my money is on the bet that it's a piece of faulty hardware. Linux is far less tolerant of faulty hardware than Windows I might add (at least from my experience). I'd say that it's not a kde, or kdelib4 issue. Definitely not. It could be a kernel issue, but I honestly doubt it. An anecdote from my experience. I had an older Pioneer DVD-120s slot dvd rom drive. Worked fine for 3 or 4 months. Then odd things started happening. Couldn't play DVDs. Xine, mplayer, ogle, vlc all would hang. Checked permissions, rebuilt the device node, nothing helped. In the end, I was doing some beta testing for Libranet, and the beta DVD would fail to boot properly. Since I had a new LG dvd burner as well, I just booted from that, and the disk worked a charm. A note that audio CDs would not play via kscd, but would work via xmms. Audio cable etc, was fine. Swapped sound card, same issue. In the end, I noticed errors in /var/log/messages, saying seek drive error. That was that, I got a new LG dvd drive, replaced the crappy Pioneer drive and all worked well ever since. My conclusion: faulty drive. My gut instinct (and some research on this), tells me it's a faulty drive. Hope this helps, Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
