LinuxCrusader 0 Posted February 14, 2004 Hey guys I just installed Fedora core 1 on my computer...everyone is right....Fedora is lightning fast for some reason. I have messed around with Manadrake 9.2, Morphix, Knoppix, and now Fedora. However, I still have the same problem that I have had with all of these distros. I can't play DVD's or listen to music CDs through the regular CD player. I can definitely listen to MP3s through the "music player" or "XMMS" that comes with Fedora. Does anyone have any suggestions? I think both of my dvd and cdroms are mounted....how do I make sure that they are definitely mounted? All I'm trying to do is to test if they can play and burn dvd's, burn regular discs, or just play music cds. Please help! Other than that, everthing seems to be working perfectly. I have a Samsung CD-ROM SC-140C and a Toshiba DVD-ROM SD-R5002. ---------------------------------------------------- Desktop Sony Viao PCV-RS310 Pentium 4, 2.4Ghz 256 Ram Share this post Link to post
matttah 0 Posted February 15, 2004 uh not sure if oyu mean you want tos ee if they are mounted...download xine and you can watch dvds, just make sure you change the path to the drive to be correct(i believe its /dev/cdrom(# if you have multi cd drives)...or its /mnt/cdrom(#). To check if you can mount them open a terminal and do mount /mnt/cdrom(#) and it should mount them and pop a disk up on your desktop showing the cd....you can use gnome toaster to burn some cds and such...just download the mpeg123 if you are going to be burning mp3 cds...you need that rpm file to burn those types....its not that ahrd t ofind... Daum Share this post Link to post
LinuxCrusader 0 Posted February 16, 2004 Quote: matttah Member Joined: 25 Jan 2004 Posts: 49 Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2004 8:24 am Post subject: uh not sure if oyu mean you want tos ee if they are mounted...download xine and you can watch dvds, just make sure you change the path to the drive to be correct(i believe its /dev/cdrom(# if you have multi cd drives)...or its /mnt/cdrom(#). To check if you can mount them open a terminal and do mount /mnt/cdrom(#) and it should mount them and pop a disk up on your desktop showing the cd....you can use gnome toaster to burn some cds and such...just download the mpeg123 if you are going to be burning mp3 cds...you need that rpm file to burn those types....its not that ahrd t ofind... Daum When issue the commands ls -al /dev/cdrom, ls -al /dev/cdrom1, I am able to see one points to /dev/hdd and other one to /dev/scd0 and both of them under root's ownership. I installed XINE, but I am still not able to see movies or simply listen to a music cd. It's weird, if I say mount /dev/cdrom...it says no medium found...and same thing for cdrom1. I don't if this normal since I'm thinking that I don't have anything inside the cdroms, but at least I should be able to see the cdroms icon and see that there's nothing there in the desktop, which I don't. When I do xine-check, everthing reports as good but I get in the middle of checking I get somthing like this: /dev/dvd is /dev/dvd, not a DVD device /dev/dvd is the default device that xine uses for playing DVDs. You could make your life easier by creating a symlink named /dev/dvd pointing to your DVD device (something like /dev/scd0 or /dev/hdc). If your DVD-ROM device is /dev/hdb (slave ATAPI device on primary bus), rm /dev/dvd ln -s hdb /dev/dvd typed as root will give you the symlink. Alternatively, you can configure xine to use the real device directly, using the setup dialog within xine, but I can't check your DMA settings in that case... So my quetion is can some please tell me what the syntax is for a symlink? Can someone give me an example? I really love Fedora and all I need for now is to get my dvd-rom and cd-rom working... Running xine gives me an error of ouf course, which says can't find input plug in for MRL [dvd:/] if I'm trying to see a movie. Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated. Share this post Link to post
