Re: [newbie] xine and raw dvd device

[Len Lawrence]

To answer my own post.  Come back 8.1 - all is forgiven.  Found
service for rawdevices in the init scripts.  Ran
"/etc/rc.d/init.d/rawdevices start" and voila xine started running
d4d no problem.  There is also a rawdevices option under DrakConf ->
System -> Services.

Now to find out why only root can run xmms

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[newbie] xine and raw dvd device

[Len Lawrence]

Hi folks

This is getting worse and worse.  8.1 is a giant step backwards from
7.2.  Wherever I turn there are problems, which simply did not exist
in 7.2.  After the sound saga - still not resolved for xmms - I find
that xine will not play DVDs because it cannot find the raw device
/dev/rdvd.  Does Mandrake expect one to construct the whole system by
hand?  How to install one of these special devices?  Presumably the
command involves mknod, but what are the parameters for /dev/rdvd?

Just about at the end of my tether.  Should I go back to 7.2?

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