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Hi.

K3b and VLC don't find /dev/dvd

Obviously related to this bug:
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4997

As I do not understand, how to use the rdloader command with drakut as mentioned in the bug (because I am no kernel hacker, just a plain dumb user ...), I tried to find out wether my system recognizes the optical drive.

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blkid

showed my drive as /dev/hda.

So I did a

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chmod 666 /dev/hda

Now I can access a dvd with VLC by loading medium /dev/hda. (K3B doesnt recognize the drive, because it searches /dev/dvd ...)

But when I play a DVD, VLC now quits working after 1 hour and 4 minutes (tested with 4 different DVDs) ...


So please, can someone explain to an dumb user like me, either how to

- apply the drakut rdloader solution mentioned in the bug-description

or

- how to prevent VLC from quitting work after 1 hour (so I could look DVDs at least ...)

thank you,
Bernd

press F3 at the bootscreen, chose e.g. standard and add the mentioned command to the kernel options line at bottom of the screen. if it works well you may add this command to the kernel options by editing the /boot/grub/menu.lst

menu.lst. ok.

thank you very much, Alf!!

edit: it works.
My system needed "rdloaddriver=pata_amd" ... thx again ....

Bernd