/dev/dvd missing

ypnos · 2011-10-30 18:03:15

Hi,

on my install /dev/dvd got lost. I have to create a symlink to scd0 manually. Does anybody know the reason for this udev behavior or has a solution (pointers where to look at)?

ypnos

drcouzelis · 2011-10-30 18:29:11

Thank you for bringing that up. I noticed that too, but have been too lazy to look into it.

This seems to be the relavent thread: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=941382 I like Misfit's suggestion at the bottom, so I just added that to my /etc/rc.local file:

ln -s /dev/sr0 /dev/cdrom
ln -s /dev/sr0 /dev/cdrw
ln -s /dev/sr0 /dev/dvd
ln -s /dev/sr0 /dev/dvdrw

karol · 2011-10-30 18:33:04

We don't create e.g /dev/cdrom for some time:
2011-05-19: udev 169-1 removed cdsymlinks.sh
http://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/ … 60ccd3d56e

ypnos · 2011-10-30 18:40:11

Thank you very much for the prompt replies and valuable information!

So you tell me everybody who wants to use mplayer dvd:// needs to has his individual stuff in rc.local? Or do I miss something?

karol · 2011-10-30 18:40:48

As for the symlinks, this solution has been removed from the wiki https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php?ti … did=168068

BasT · 2011-10-31 11:51:59

karol wrote:

As for the symlinks, this solution has been removed from the wiki https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php?ti … did=168068

Check this post:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 2#p1010072

Last edited by BasT (2011-10-31 11:52:18)

SS4 · 2011-10-31 12:27:12

ypnos wrote:

Thank you very much for the prompt replies and valuable information!
So you tell me everybody who wants to use mplayer dvd:// needs to has his individual stuff in rc.local? Or do I miss something?

As a workaround you can use

mplayer -dvd-device /dev/sr0 dvd://

Leonid.I · 2011-10-31 19:23:05

I think mplayer's dvd:// protocol has nothing to do with the presence of actual /dev/dvd.

jaco · 2011-10-31 21:06:41

For my own, i've created this file (82-cdrom.rules) in /etc/udev/rules.d :

SUBSYSTEMS=="scsi", KERNEL=="sr0", GROUP="optical", SYMLINK+="cdrom dvd"

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/dev/dvd missing

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