On Sunday 17 October 2004 14:56, David wrote: > On Sun, 17 Oct 2004 12:53:10 -0400 > Bryan Phinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sunday 17 October 2004 10:04, Hoyt Bailey wrote: > > > If your machine is like mine and you have a single cdrom/dvd > > > drive, then Mandrake may have only created the /dev/cdrom link > > > rather than the /dev/dvd link. You can fix this by creating a > > > symbolic link in /dev from /dev/cdrom to /dev/dvd > > > > > > as root > > > > > > ln -s /dev/cdrom /dev/dvd > > > > When I do the above I get a file exists error, and in /dev the file > > is '/dev/dvd@'. > > Then your system is NOT like mine. I usually only get one device > created and that is cdrom. You can change the default settings for > Mplayer, Xine, etc to use /dev/cdrom instead of /dev/dvd or you can > create a symbolic link from /dev/cdrom to /dev/dvd. However, if your > system already has a symbolic link to /dev/dvd, then this doesn't > apply. > > have you told your player that it has to look at the dvdrom - in > preferences??? > No but I will thanks, thats likely the problem. -- Regards; Hoyt Registered Linux User #363264 http://counter.li.org
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