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Hi all,
I'm trying to play dvd's in applications (totem, mplayer,vlc) but Arch won't play nicely Here's my fstab:
# This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details
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# /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
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs defaults 0 0
#/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cd iso9660 ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0
#/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/dvd udf ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0
#/dev/floppy/0 /mnt/fl vfat user,noauto 0 0
/dev/sdb3 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/sdb4 / reiserfs defaults 0 0
/dev/sdb2 /boot reiserfs defaults 0 0
/dev/sdb1 /mnt/files ntfs noauto,user,rw,gid=100,umask=0000 0 0
/dev/cdroms/cdrom1 /mnt/dvd auto user,noauto,unhide 0 0
/dev/hdc /media/dvdwriter auto user,exec,noauto,comment=managed 0 0
/dev/hdb /media/cdwriter auto user,exec,noauto,comment=managed 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto user,exec,noauto,comment=managed 0 0
I added the line
/dev/cdroms/cdrom1 /mnt/dvd auto user,noauto,unhide 0 0
just now to test if it would work that way... and it did! So why doesn't it normally?
Needless to say, a trained eye can see that normally I don't mount my dvd and cd drive manually: they are done by HAL or UDEV if I'm right?
If I try to use totem without my added line above, totem shows an error "/dev/hdc: permission needed" I'm guessing this has something to do with my problem...
P.S. I am in the following groups: users, audio, video
Thanks
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What is the output of ls -l /dev/hdc ?
It should be root:optical - if you have this add your user to group optical and try again.
Latest udev has also some changes that can do wrong group permission. If you have root:disk read this:
http://bugs.archlinux.org/?do=details&id=2691
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=12071
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lanrat, you were right! so this is the case then? optical is used for (duh!) optical drives and their playback?
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It's just used for /dev/hdc - you can't have many group permissions for one device :-)
I don't know how it works internally in a dvd player but it complained about an access to /dev/hdc.
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I had the same problem and I am in the optical group. Some programs will not look at /media/dvdwriter or cdwriter for access. What I had to do to get it to work was to symlink the /media/dvdwriter to /mnt/dvd and cdwriter to /mnt/cd. This made my other apps recognise the cd's/dvd's.
But, how can I force in fstab to add ro to the options line. If I manually put it in, then, on a reboot, the ro option is gone.
Thanks!!!
Joe
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I had the same problem and I am in the optical group. Some programs will not look at /media/dvdwriter or cdwriter for access. What I had to do to get it to work was to symlink the /media/dvdwriter to /mnt/dvd and cdwriter to /mnt/cd. This made my other apps recognise the cd's/dvd's.
But, how can I force in fstab to add ro to the options line. If I manually put it in, then, on a reboot, the ro option is gone.
Thanks!!!
Joe
If you are reffering to the options of the /media/... drives, then I have the exact same question... after reading the docs I cant see a solution (you need to read up on fstab-sync) If I get a solution I'll post it here
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