On Wednesday 12 Feb 2003 17:16, gabor wrote: > or ( and i recommend this solution ), > make i symlink from your dvd device to /dev/dvd > > this way you don't have to specify the dvd drive in any dvd players > (ogle,mplayer,xine)
Ideally you should do this in /etc/devfsd.conf: # Create /dev/dvd for the first cdrom drive # (change 'cdroms/cdrom1' to suite your setup) # NOTE: We add the fully qualified path here, else some apps # have problems to resolve the true device (drip comes to mind) LOOKUP ^dvd$ CFUNCTION GLOBAL mksymlink \ ${mntpnt}/cdroms/cdrom0 dvd REGISTER ^cdroms/cdrom0$ CFUNCTION GLOBAL mksymlink ${devpath} dvd UNREGISTER ^cdroms/cdrom0$ CFUNCTION GLOBAL unlink dvd Peter -- Gentoo-1.4.2.8 Stable. KDE: 3.1.0 Qt: 3.1.0 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1900+ 512MB. Kernel: 2.4.20-xfs_pre5-pnr. GCC 3.2.1 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list