Richard Fish <bigfish <at> asmallpond.org> writes:

> > lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 3 Nov 17 19:01 /dev/dvd -> hdc
 
> Ok, so everything is fine...but you say vlc and kaffeine still don't
> work?  Hold on...googling...

> Um, the Samsung SC-152G is a CD-ROM drive, not a DVD drive.  So udev
> and cdrom_id are doing the right things....no bug here.

dmesg says:
hdc: SAMSUNG CD-ROM SC-152G, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive

> You'll need to buy a DVD drive if you want to watch DVDs.  Any ATAPI
> DVD device should do, but Philips and Sony are probably the best.


I going to purchase either a DVDrom or a DVDrw tomorrow and test it 
out

Thanks for all the help.

James



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