On 03/02/2012 08:55 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote: > I suppose I should know by know but ... > > Do I need an entry in /etc/fstab for an optical disk drive? If > so what should it be? > > I viewed some lectures on line, bought the download actually but > decided would eat up more of my bandwidth allotment for the > month than I could afford and had them send me some DVD's > instead. Then to my surprise my F-16/64 installations wont play > them although they looked fine from the download site. > > When I put a "movie" dvd in the drive an icon pops up normally > but ls /media appears to be empty: > > [bobg@box6 ~]$ ll /media > total 0 > > Should I not see something like /media/cdrom ? The disk I am > testing with has always worked on earlier Fedora's. Admittedly I > rarely do anything with dvd's but when I have needed to I have > been able to play and record, in most cases data. Now as far as > VLC and Parole it is like there's no drive installed? > > I need help troubleshooting. > > I'm using KDE, so my view may vary slightly from what you see..... When I pop in a DVD, Arsenic and Old Lace, the "Device Notifier" pops up giving 6 potential actions. I don't want to do any of them so I ignore it. The device is not mounted so there is nothing in /media. I bring up SMPlayer and pick "Open from Disc" and the movie is played. The program is reading directly from the /dev/dvd device which is a symlink to /dev/sr0 which is the block device for the drive. -- Do not condemn the judgment of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong. -- Dandemis -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
