DCD playing problem

[stan]

On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 08:53:00AM +0200, Knapp wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 11:59 PM, stan <stanb at panix.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, Sep 07, 2008 at 08:26:52AM +0200, Knapp wrote:
> >> This sounds just like the fight we just fought on Kubuntu list.
> >> The answer in that case was that the DVD driver is getting named
> >> wrong. In my case it was named dvd1. Print a list of your directory.
> >> ls -al /dev/DVD*
> >
> > stan at boo-boo:~$ ls -al /dev/dv*
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2008-09-07 15:06 /dev/dvd1 -> scd0
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2008-09-07 15:06 /dev/dvdrw1 -> scd0
> >
> >> and post it please. You might also go into kafeine > Settings > xine >
> >
> > Does this look correct?
> > --
> > One of the main causes of the fall of the roman empire was that, lacking
> > zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C
> > programs.
> >
> 
> That looks just like the bug. It should be /dev/dvd ->scd0
> 
> What seems to hapen is that you had an ide dvd player and then it gets
> updated to a scd0 player in the software but the ide is not dropped
> and takes up the dvd slot but then it does not work because it is no
> longer supported that way.
> 
> The answer is to raname or if you are brave and dumb remove that file
> called /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-cd.rules and reboot your
> computer. Then you should find that dvds play without problems. Let us
> know.

YES!

That fixed it.

Thanks so much for following through on tis!

-- 
One of the main causes of the fall of the roman empire was that, lacking
zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C
programs.