[ltp] 600x DVD

James McKenzie linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Mon, 27 Oct 2003 21:45:34 -0700


Satish:

Just how much of this site do I have to download?

It looks like a real loooooong download.

James McKenzie


Satish Balay wrote:

>On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 brianweber4@comcast.net wrote:
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>>I have a Thinkpad 600X and am using Mandrake 9.1 and also have Redhat 9.0 on another hard drive.
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>>I have installed at lease 3 different DVD software packages in Mandrake and Redhat and have not been able to get any to work. They either crash or cant find the DVD drive.
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>>Is there anyone who has gotten DVD to work? Is there a symbolic link I need to make to hdc?
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>I usually use xine - and it needs a /dev/dvd to be a link to the
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>Currently I have xine, mplayer installed from http://rpm.livna.org/ on
>a T40 with redhat rawhide - and it xine works fine with dvds.
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>You should be able to install both these tools for redhat - from the
>same site - using yum.
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>Satish
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