fresh install ---blooming DVD drive not recognized AGAIN

[Ric Moore]

On 01/15/2012 03:24 PM, Ioannis Vranos wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 10:11 PM, Ric Moore<wayward4now at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Append: This MB is a MSI P6n SLI Platinum with a dual-core Intel CPU. It's
>> been weird setting this one up. It has issues, like the multichannel sound
>> output's humming like a nuclear reactor. It refuses to recognize the EDID
>> from one of two identical monitors. Yeah, fun...
>>
>> Just for ducks I figured I'd try using hdparm
>>
>> ric at ima:~$ sudo hdparm -d1 /dev/sr0
>>
>> /dev/sr0:
>>   setting using_dma to 1 (on)
>>   HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
>>   HDIO_GET_DMA failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
>> ric at ima:~$
>
> My system shows the same fail messages. Before going low level, my
> guess is that since data dvds mount OK, it is some kind of DVD
> codec/playback issue.
>
> What video player are you using for DVD playback?


You name 'em, I've installed and tried them all. Xine, VLC, MoviePlayer, 
Totem-xine. The restricted extras all installed. libdvdcss2 installed 
more than once. I figure it has to be that my hardware isn't up to 
playing a DVD without DMA access enabled. Still googling... and what 
sucks is that I've been here before and it's always something weird and 
minuscule, like some init/config file off of the /etc directory! :) Ric