On Thu, 26 Nov 2009, Rich Shepard wrote: > Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 15:59:40 -0800 (PST) > From: Rich Shepard <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: [PLUG] CD/DVD Drive and Movie Software: Xubuntu-9.04 > > There's a cd/dvd drive in the Toshiba Satellite. Inserting a movie dvd is > easy: press the button on the drawer and it opens. After that it gets rather > screwy. > > On the Applications->Multimedia menu is something called Movie Player. > When that is invoked it opens a large window, then displays a message box > that it's missing all requisite plug-ins (!). Strange. Doesn't tell me > what's missing nor do I understand why they'd be missing in a clean > installation. > > Thinking I could get past this I used the synaptic package manager to get > and install mplayer. However, when I try to play the disk in the drive I see > messages that there's something about the disk, or too many buffers are > loaded, and the mplayer window shows a psycadelic display of colored bars in > several vertical strips from the bottom of the window up. So I kill that > process and try to remove the disk by opening the drive door. > > At this point a serious message box pops up with text that the drive is > not recogzined by HAL and must have been installed by aliens or something. > Never have seen any such reaction before. Need to resort to the straightened > paper clip to open the drive and remove the disk. > > Does anyone have any ideas why both the software and the hardware are > acting as they are? > > TIA, > > Rich
Some thories, which may be dead wrong: You cannot eject the DVD because you are not in the plugdev group, a prerequisite for doing stuff with HAL-controlled hardware. Use the id command to check this. Can you do an eject /dev/cdrom as root? You cannot play the DVD with your software because libdvdcss isn't installed, or isn't activated. Most distros require you to do something manually to get the library running. This is so that they won't have any legal liabilities. Carlos _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
