DVD Player won't show up...

[GameGURU]

Yeah, I have a liteon (or something like that) DVD player. Just a 16x

When I boot up slackware it recognizes it all of the time, but then when I got into KDE it doesn't show up. I have tried to put disks in it to make it work but to no avail.

 

[horndude]

post your /etc/fstab file
what is the designation for your drive-------/dev/hdc or /dev/hdd or what?

as root type: dmesg | more ----------look thru that to find it if you have to, it will show what the kernel sends to stdout when booting

 

[GameGURU]

/dev/hda2 / ext3 defaults 1 1
/dev/hda1 /windows ntfs ro 1 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,owner,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0


Apparantly it doesn't exist.

 

[macdude425]

Well, it's in /etc/fstab...

Stupid question, but when you put in a disc, do you manually mount it?

 

[horndude]

change "owner" in cdrom line to "user", should be good to go

 

[GameGURU]

I don't see it in there, I changed it to user and it didn't do anything.

My CD-ROM drive works just fine, the DVD drive does'nt.

 

[macdude425]

You mean like it won't play DVDs? Try getting libdvdread and libdvdcss.

 

[horndude]

how many drives do you have?, if this dvd drive is separate it will need its own entry in /etc/fstab:

/dev/hdd /mnt/dvd auto user,ro 0 0

also make the directory for it to mount to:
mkdir /mnt/dvd

 

[GameGURU]

Ahh, good stuff.

Thanks guys!