[ltp] region-free DVD-drive

[fire-eyes]

Damien Challet wrote:
> On Tuesday 24 January 2006 14:22, igorr+tp@ifi.uio.no wrote:
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>
>>I have a ThinkPad with a Matshita UJ-822S, and recently I have discovered
>>that this DVD drive unfortunately implements region settings in firmware.
>>There does not seem to be any third party firmware updates[1], and coming
>>from the region-free NEC-world[2], I find this situation very annoying.
> 
> 
> on linux regions do not matter. On windows xp there are freewares 
> (http://www.dvd43.com/) that make regions irrelevant.

It certainly mattered for me on my brand new T43, I think the same
drive. I would get nothing but errors and timeouts in logs for the dvd
drive. That all went away the instant I set a region and rebooted. But I
still have problems.