On Fri, 2 Jan 2004 01:07:01 -0500
Ronald J. Hall pulled out a pad and began to scribble.....:
> On Thursday 01 January 2004 11:19 pm, David wrote:
> ->
> -> Yeah, that was the first thing I did was install Mandrake on it. I'm
only
> keeping the xp on it to run visual studio for a course I got next semester
> and for watching DVDs at the moment. ->
>
> but you can watch DVDs under Linux just fine... :-)
>
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> /\
> Dark<
>Lord
> \/
Well, maybe you can. But I'm having considerable troubles doing so.
I think I have installed and tried every app that even mentions being able to play
and/or rip DVDs, including all contribs/plf/textar.
Here are some of the symptoms I have re-created while typing this email:
VLC - recognizes the disk and begins to play the movie, and then either crashes with a
seg fault and must be killed from a terminal. Or it just freezes my system (mouse and
keyboard) and I must hard reboot.
XINE - begins to open and then closes before completing. This is a separate issue,
but if anyone has any ideas as to the cause, I'd like to hear 'em.
TOTEM - crashes with a seg fault.
OGLE - I click on File > Open Disk, and the app closes.
LUMINIERE - "Unable to open DVD://1" or 2 or 3 etc...
I am getting a LOT of crashes from seg faults. A lot of apps in my menu, that I know
I have installed with all deps, will either do nothing when I try to open them, or
will flash open then close real quick. What could be going on with this?
I'm running mdk 9.1 on a stock HP Pavillion ze4300 laptop. AMD xp-m, 512m ram, and a
toshiba CD-RW/DVD-Rom. And yes, I did set the settings for the DVD device to
/dev/scd0.
TIA
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David Steiner
www.DavidLSteiner.com
Proud Linux User #262493
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