new dvd drive won't play dvds, but old one can

[Jonas Norlander]

2008/8/17 Juan Kawada <juankawada at gmail.com>:
> ok sorry for the triple post here but I just learned something new. I just
> put in a dvd in both drives, new and old. When I tried to play the dvd in
> the new drive, it played the dvd in the old one instead.
>
> this happened when I first inserted the dvd and hit play in kaffiene. It
> happened again when I clicked on the disc on the desktop and tried to play
> it.

In kaffeine you have in the settings menu "xine engine" something,
there you can set what device it will use for dvd playback as default
it's /dev/dvd but you can change it to your preferred device. And how
is your symlinks in /dev/ now after removing
/etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-cd.rules and rebooted?
You had:
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root   root           4 2008-08-16 09:58 dvd -> scd1
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root   root           4 2008-08-16 09:58 dvd3 -> scd0
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root   root           4 2008-08-16 09:58 dvdrw -> scd1
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root   root           4 2008-08-16 09:58 dvdrw3 -> scd0
Your symlinks don't make sense for me, the third symlink pointing to
the first device etc. perhaps not a big deal and it should have bean
remade when you removed persistent-cd.rules. Anyhow most dvd program
is using /dev/dvd as default to play dvd so use that device just to be
safe.

/ Jonas