Re: Play DVD (solved)

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From: "Kevin J. Cummings" <cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 23:14:19 -0500
Subject: Re: Play DVD
On 01/13/2011 11:46 AM, Don Vogt wrote:
>> I have had this, or a similar problem, with fc14. My  problem is that the dvd playing program (I believe it is XINE) says it can't find /dev/dvd. That is because there is no /dev/dvd. My fix is to open mc go to /dev and copy dvd1 to dvd. I tried to use a command line and run "cp /dev/dvd1 /dev/dvd", but that didn't work. I don't know why, I probably need a switch. I hope this helps.

>Entries in /dev are no longer persistent.  They are created at system
boot time via UDEV rules.  Look in your /etc/udev at the configuration
files for hints as to how to create proper entries in your /dev
directory.  Any changes you might make directly to /dev will be lost on
your next reboot (ie, you'll have to make them again).

>You might be able to put commands in your /etc/rc.local script, but the
proper place to make changes in /dev is via a set of local rules using
UDEV.  Don't change files that already exist as they might get
overwritten during a subsequent update.

I think I found the solution based on the useful answers I got here. My problem was that ;
UDEV is undoing my copied link when I reboot.
putting cp /dev/dvd1 /dev/dvd in a local script doesn't work because /dev/dvd1 is a link not a file (apparently mc knows that and makes the link silently)
on my system the link is to /dev/sr1. (/dev/sr0 is my cdrom)
  I found a place in the xine.conf file where I can tell xine to look for /dev/dvd1 instead of /dev/dvd. ( I hope that file won't be changed back on an xine upgrade -probably will get an  .rpmnew file.) This way I don't have to decipher UDEV rules.
 In retrospect it seems such a simple thing. However I put in several hours trying to figure it out. You all were a big help. Thanks.
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