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flebber

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Registered: 2007-06-19

Posts: 32

Dvd drive not loading properly

when I load a dvd in mplayer I get this message

Failed to open dvd://1

or totem i get this message

Failed to find mountpoint for device /dev/sr0

I have added my user to optical, hal and dbus and all .

My drive is in fstab

#
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
#
# <file system>        <dir>         <type>    <options>          <dump> <pass>
none                   /dev/pts      devpts    defaults            0      0
none                   /dev/shm      tmpfs     defaults            0      0


/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom   iso9660   ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
/dev/cdrom1 /mnt/cdrom1   iso9660   ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
/dev/dvd /mnt/dvd   udf   ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/fd0   vfat   user,noauto   0      0
/dev/sdb1 /boot ext2 defaults 0 1
/dev/sdb2 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/sdb3 / ext3 defaults 0 1
/dev/sdb4 /home ext3 defaults 0 1
/dev/sda6 /flebarch ext3 defaults 0 0

VLC also

dvd:///dev/sr0

I notice tho that they are all wanting or trying to mount it as /dev/sr0 , why ?
I changed fstab to have it as sr0

/dev/sr0 /mnt/dvd   udf   ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0

but no go .

It seems it might have something to do with rights, although I have added user to video,audio,optical,hal,dbus. but when I press eject I get this error,

You are not privileged to eject the volume 'OPEN_SEASON'.

it must be something simple that is screwing it all up.

Last edited by flebber (2007-07-08 05:21:45)

rayjgu3

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From: Chicago IL usa

Registered: 2004-07-04

Posts: 695

Re: Dvd drive not loading properly

is there a /dev/sr0 ?
ls /dev   <will tell you
reconfigure your media programs to look for /dev/cdrom or /dev/dvd as your fstab suggests

flebber

Member

Registered: 2007-06-19

Posts: 32

Re: Dvd drive not loading properly

Yes sr0 does exist This is the output of ls /dev

adsp     kmsg       radio   scd1        stdin   tty27  tty49  urandom
agpgart  log        radio0  sda         stdout  tty28  tty5   usbdev1.1_ep00
audio    loop       ram0    sda1        tts     tty29  tty50  usbdev1.1_ep81
bus      loop0      ram1    sda2        tty     tty3   tty51  usbdev2.1_ep00
cd       loop1      ram10   sda5        tty0    tty30  tty52  usbdev2.1_ep81
cdrom    loop2      ram11   sda6        tty1    tty31  tty53  usbdev3.1_ep00
cdrom0   loop3      ram12   sdb         tty10   tty32  tty54  usbdev3.1_ep81
cdrom1   loop4      ram13   sdb1        tty11   tty33  tty55  usbdev4.1_ep00
cdrw     loop5      ram14   sdb2        tty12   tty34  tty56  usbdev4.1_ep81
cdrw0    loop6      ram15   sdb3        tty13   tty35  tty57  usbdev4.2_ep00
cdrw1    loop7      ram2    sdb4        tty14   tty36  tty58  usbdev4.2_ep81
console  lp0        ram3    sequencer   tty15   tty37  tty59  usbdev4.2_ep82
core     mem        ram4    sequencer2  tty16   tty38  tty6   usbdev5.1_ep00
disk     misc       ram5    sg0         tty17   tty39  tty60  usbdev5.1_ep81
dsp      mixer      ram6    sg1         tty18   tty4   tty61  v4l
dvd      null       ram7    sg2         tty19   tty40  tty62  vbi
dvd0     nvidia0    ram8    sg3         tty2    tty41  tty63  vbi0
fb       nvidiactl  ram9    shm         tty20   tty42  tty7   vc
fb0      parport0   random  snapshot    tty21   tty43  tty8   vcc
fd       port       rd      snd         tty22   tty44  tty9   video
full     ppp        root    sound       tty23   tty45  ttyS0  video0
initctl  psaux      rtc     sr0         tty24   tty46  ttyS1  zero
input    ptmx       rtc0    sr1         tty25   tty47  ttyS2
kmem     pts        scd0    stderr      tty26   tty48  ttyS3

grilledfromage

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Registered: 2007-12-24

Posts: 6

Re: Dvd drive not loading properly

flebber: did you get this problem resolved? I've hit the same roadblock. Actually, I can't even mount the dvd drive from /dev/dvd, it automatically mounts sr0 when I try to mount the /dev/dvd.

Last edited by grilledfromage (2008-01-11 04:27:01)

jacko

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Registered: 2007-11-23

Posts: 840

Re: Dvd drive not loading properly

flebber: did you get this problem resolved? I've hit the same roadblock. Actually, I can't even mount the dvd drive from /dev/dvd, it automatically mounts sr0 when I try to mount the /dev/dvd.

do u have hal installed? if u have hal installed and listing's in fstab there is sure to be some problems.

grilledfromage

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Registered: 2007-12-24

Posts: 6

Re: Dvd drive not loading properly

i do have hal installed. i tried both removing fstab completely (subsequently i couldn't boot) and then commenting out the two optical disk entries in fstab. neither attempt worked at changing the optical drive from thinking it should mount to sr0. i'm using gnome-volume-manager, but without any of the options checked. here is my fstab file:

# <file system>        <dir>         <type>    <options>          <dump> <pass>
none                   /dev/pts      devpts    defaults            0      0
none                   /dev/shm      tmpfs     defaults            0      0

#/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom   iso9660   ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
#/dev/dvd /mnt/dvd   udf   ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
/dev/sda2 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/sda3 /boot ext3 defaults 0 1
/dev/sda5 / ext3 defaults 0 1
/dev/sda6 /home ext3 defaults 0 1

thanks for the help.