Nothing plays DVDs in Ubuntu Gutsy?

[NoOp]

On 10/25/2007 04:00 AM, chombee wrote:
>>From the responses it certainly looks as if a few of us have DVD
> playback issues with Gutsy but plenty of people don't. Bill Mosely is
> even using a very similar laptop to mine, mine is a Lenovo R60e or
> something, and it works for him.
> 
> Is this a hardware specific issue? Or configuration specific? (I'm using
> a pretty fresh Gutsy install though). Does anyone see anything in the
> outputs I posted that suggests what the problem with my particular
> laptop might be? Or is there anything else I could post?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> 

Personally I'd _purge_ all of your sound & media programs and reinstall
them. If at all possible do as much as you can from synaptics rather
than the command line; I've noticed that some packages are not matched
at the command line w/synaptics on this system after upgrade. For
example: if I install Dia (sudo apt-get install dia) from the command
line it says it's installed, but it fails to run. However if I search
synaptics, synaptics now has it listed as 'dia-gnome'. Installed that
and now Dia works. Packages are showing up in two locations:

http://packages.ubuntu.com/gutsy/graphics/dia
[universe]

and

http://packages.ubuntu.com/gutsy/gnome/dia-gnome

Could be that you're running into similar problems on your media packages.