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mxyzp7lk

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Registered: 2007-03-19

Posts: 3

dvd and hal

Hi,

Firstly, sorry for my poor English...
I was trying configure gnome to open totem automatically when I insert a dvd on the system, but it is not work, nothing
happen... If I try open totem manually and open the dvd, appears a error message from hal about AccessDenied. Does anyone
know how correctly setup this?

Thanks

skottish

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Registered: 2006-06-16

Posts: 7,942

Re: dvd and hal

Welcome to Arch.

Is your user a member of the Optical group?

mxyzp7lk

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Registered: 2007-03-19

Posts: 3

Re: dvd and hal

Oh, thank you.
Yes, I'm. I can mount the dvd normaly. xine and mplayer work fine too...

Crooksey

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From: UK ~

Registered: 2006-08-14

Posts: 415

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Re: dvd and hal

pacman -S libdvdnav libdvdread libdvdcss totem-xine gstreamer0.10-plugins
gpasswd -a <username> optical
reboot

Thats what I do to play DVD's on a clean install

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mxyzp7lk

Member

Registered: 2007-03-19

Posts: 3

Re: dvd and hal

Great! Many thanks, it worked fine, but i need add the user to group storage.
Now, I'd like to open totem automatically when the dvd is inserted. I configurated
gnome-volume-manager to do this, but it isn't working. Searching on internet,
I saw in some ubuntu discussions forums that your user must be in group "plugdev",
but this group is not present in Arch. Any idea?