On 02/03/12 09:27, Ed Greshko wrote:
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.
Ok Ed, that's what I needed!
[root@box6 bobg]# ll /dev/sr1
brw-rw----+ 1 root cdrom 11, 1 Mar 2 04:35 /dev/sr1
There's that "+" again, the same problem I am having with
devices connected to USB like my scanners, and the digital
camera. Apparently a problem unique to the Fedora 16 XFCE Live
Spin from which I have installed both systems.
I put bobg in the cdrom group, not sure if that helps but doing:
[root@box6 bobg]# ll /dev/sr1
brw-rw----+ 1 root cdrom 11, 1 Mar 2 04:35 /dev/sr1
Gets the movie running in VLC.
Thanks,
Bob
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