FWIW: The CDROM (DVD) drive works perfectly with mplayer. I can play an entire DVD without any problems. On Sun, 2004-11-14 at 18:43 -0500, David Zeuthen wrote: > On Sun, 2004-11-14 at 23:18 +0100, Harald Hoyer (slash) wrote: > > Maybe cdparanoia should open the cdrom device with O_EXCL and hal also... > > > > hal already uses O_EXCL for opening the device node when it comes to > optical drives. It is a bug in cdparanoia if it doesn't. > > Cheers, > David > > -- Kim Lux (Mr.) Diesel Research Inc