-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 01/02/08 18:09, hce wrote: > On 1/3/08, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 01/02/08 17:07, hce wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I have a DVD+R driver, sometime it can detect a DVD disk >>> automatically, sometime it is not: >>> >>> 1. If the DVD driver cannot detect a DVD disc inserted to the driver, >>> what is the command I can use to manually mount the DVD? >>> >>> 2. Can a DVD+R driver work to a DVD-R disk? I thought the different >>> between the DVD+R and DVD-R is the laser beam, if I can copy DVD-R >>> video files to harddisk, then play video from harddisk should be fine, >>> is it correct? Or any alternatives or tricks to watch video from DVD-R >>> disk? >> I don't think there *is* a DVD driver, per se. There's the UDF fs >> driver, though. You might mean that. > > To be hornest, I am not clear how the DVD system works. Is the DVD > like a CD, the module need be loaded, then be mounted to a file > system? I guess that UDF fs is the file system for the DVD. I more > concern with the DVD formats for different DVD RW devices. Are the > different formats DVD-R and DVD+R only presented in physical device, > not on a file system? As long as the device is mounted to a file > system such as UDF, there won't be any difference to read contents > from the file system, is that correct? > >> What DE do you use? GNOME, KDE, xfce??? That's what usually auto- >> recognizes inserted DVDs. > > I am using GNOME.
Does the DVD's icon appear on the desktop? Open an xterm, make it large, and then run # tail -n40 /var/log/syslog See what happens when you put a movie DVD into the machine. Then a "burned" disk. Also, do you have gnome-volume-manager and gnome-mount installed? - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA "I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals, I'm a vegetarian because I hate vegetables!" unknown -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHfD4dS9HxQb37XmcRAkIbAKC7vPz2ZBX6KPYwOPe8C1Ruv7+1rgCeLXOK yJyFgxp/Nux8+v7zqzL7iKg= =uQyo -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]