> We no longer create a /vol/dev/aliases/cdrom0 in SNV > 58? I recently installed it on a laptop and am trying > xine. Xine expects a predefined location (which used > to be the alias to /vol/dev/aliases/cdrom0 in the > past) for reading the DVD.
Yep, before vold had been removed and was replaced by "tamarack" / hald, /vol/dev/aliases/cdrom0 was a fixed path name that points to your system's first optical device; it was a reasonable default pathname for the optical device, that worked in most cases. But that path doesn't exist any more, now that vold is gone. With tamarack, we can now use the /dev/rdsk/c*t*d0* devices. But you first have to figure out which device is a disk device, and which one is an optical device. Problem with these pathnames is that the optical disk device could use a different pathname on each system, so they are not suitable as an application default. I guess xine could be changed to use /dev/rsr0 instead of /vol/dev/aliases/cdrom0 as the default optical disk device, on Solaris Nevada... The sr0 symbolic link in /dev should point to your system's first optical device. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
