[newbie] xine and raw dvd device

2001-11-27 Thread 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.

Re: [newbie] xine and raw dvd device

2001-11-27 Thread 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