DCD playing problem

[Knapp]

On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 12:05 PM, stan <stanb at panix.com> wrote:
> 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.
>


NP, you would not beleave the number of people getting wrong advice
about this problem. It is because the error message is total BS. It
has nothing at all to do with the encryption or the location setting
or anything else like that. It is just a bad config file.
-- 
Douglas E Knapp

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