On Mon, 2003-03-17 at 21:12, Matt Pittard wrote: > Thanks for the advice on symlink, Michael and for the additional > information on how to do it Glen. I appreciate it. Couldn't I just > rename my /mnt/cdrom to /mnt/dvd...or would this cause major problems? I > have a CD burner and a DVD player and it would be helpful for me to > rename them anyway. Currently they are cdrom and cdrom1.
cdrom is a symlink itself to the real device (like /dev/hdc or something). So don't move it. Just make another symlink. > > Thanks, > > Matt > > On Fri, 2003-03-14 at 09:02, Glen Wagley wrote: > > You need to make a link to your dvd drive. To ensure you are making a > > link to the correct drive, try eject /dev/cdrom from the command line > > and make sure your dvd rom opens. Then, as root, ln -sf /dev/cdrom > > /dev/dvd from the command line. > > -Glen > > On Sat, 2003-03-08 at 13:02, Matt Pittard wrote: > > > I installed mplayer and I'm able to watch a DivX video, however, I get > > > an "Could not open DVD device: /dev/dvd" error when I try and play a > > > DVD. Is there something I have done wrong? > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > Matt > > > > > > On Thu, 2003-02-27 at 08:18, Michael L Torrie wrote: > > > > On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 22:59, Matt Pittard wrote: > > > > > Hello everyone. Name is Matt Pittard. I'm a new user to the land of > > > > > Linux thanks to the Mike Halcrow zealous pitch. I'm really liking it > > > > > thus far, but I'm really all about the multi-media. I have an ATI > > > > > All-in-wonder TV-in and video out. I heard from Mike that a program > > > > > called "mplayer" > > > > > (http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design5/news.html#0.90rc4) is the > > > > > program I need to set this up and I'm a little confused as to the exact > > > > > order of operations of installation. I have installed the apt-get > > > > > program, but I don't know if this is the way to do this. The > > > > > instructions go into a lot of detail about things I need, but I'm not > > > > > sure if I need to install all the codex programs or what. If anyone > > > > > could give me a step by step set of instructions, I'd appreciate it. I'm > > > > > running Red Hat 8.0. > > > > > > > > Although you could install it from source, you'll do just fine by using > > > > apt: > > > > > > > > apt-get update > > > > apt-get install mplayer > > > > > > > > If you want, you can download all the codecs from mplayer's site and > > > > untar them and then put them all in /usr/lib/win32. > > > > > > > > Michael > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > > > > > Matt > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ______________________________________ > > > > > Inflex Virus Scanner - installed on mailserver for domain @et.byu.edu > > > > > Queries to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > ____________________ > > > > > BYU Unix Users Group > > > > > http://uug.byu.edu/ > > > > > ___________________________________________________________________ > > > > > List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list > > > > -- > > > > Michael L Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > > > ____________________ > > > > BYU Unix Users Group > > > > http://uug.byu.edu/ > > > > ___________________________________________________________________ > > > > List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ______________________________________ > > > Inflex Virus Scanner - installed on mailserver for domain @et.byu.edu > > > Queries to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > ____________________ > > > BYU Unix Users Group > > > http://uug.byu.edu/ > > > ___________________________________________________________________ > > > List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list > > > > > > ____________________ > > BYU Unix Users Group > > http://uug.byu.edu/ > > ___________________________________________________________________ > > List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list > > > > > > ______________________________________ > Inflex Virus Scanner - installed on mailserver for domain @et.byu.edu > Queries to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ____________________ > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list -- Michael Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
