I've got an HP 9900i DVD/CDRW combo drive that I would like to be able to
watch DVD's on. It works fine as a writer. What do I need to do in order
to be able to do this? I've downloaded and installed Ogle. The error
message that it gives is as follows:

libdvdread: Can't stat /dev/dvd
No such file or directory
ERROR[ogle_nav]: faild to open/read the DVD


TIA

Trea wrote:
> I've got an HP 9900i DVD/CDRW combo drive that I would like to be able to
> watch DVD's on. It works fine as a writer. What do I need to do in order
> to be able to do this? I've downloaded and installed Ogle. The error
> message that it gives is as follows:
>
> libdvdread: Can't stat /dev/dvd
> No such file or directory
> ERROR[ogle_nav]: faild to open/read the DVD
>
>
> TIA
>
That's a config error. Look for the config file and change it to the
correct listing for the dvd drive. The alternative is to create a
symlink from /dev/dvd/ to /dev/cdroms/cdrom"x". Should fix the problem
but not the prefered method because of probs when you eventually install
a dvd burner. HTH


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On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:13:02 +0000, Trea wrote:

> I've got an HP 9900i DVD/CDRW combo drive that I would like to be able to
> watch DVD's on. It works fine as a writer. What do I need to do in order
> to be able to do this? I've downloaded and installed Ogle. The error
> message that it gives is as follows:
>
> libdvdread: Can't stat /dev/dvd
> No such file or directory
> ERROR[ogle_nav]: faild to open/read the DVD
>

Maybe this part of /etc/devfsd.conf will help:

# Create /dev/cdrom for the first cdrom drive
LOOKUP ^cdrom$ CFUNCTION GLOBAL mksymlink cdroms/cdrom0 cdrom
REGISTER ^cdroms/cdrom0$ CFUNCTION GLOBAL mksymlink $devname cdrom
UNREGISTER ^cdroms/cdrom0$ CFUNCTION GLOBAL unlink cdrom

# Create /dev/dvd for the second cdrom drive
# (change 'cdroms/cdrom1' to suite your setup)
# NOTE: We add the fully qualified path here, else some apps
# have problems to resolve the true device (drip comes to mind)
LOOKUP ^dvd$ CFUNCTION GLOBAL mksymlink sr0 dvd
REGISTER ^sr0$ CFUNCTION GLOBAL mksymlink $devname dvd
UNREGISTER ^sr0$ CFUNCTION GLOBAL unlink dvd

# Create /dev/cdrw for the first cdrom on the scsi bus
# (change 'sr0' to suite your setup)
LOOKUP ^cdrw$ CFUNCTION GLOBAL mksymlink sr0 cdrw
REGISTER ^sr0$ CFUNCTION GLOBAL mksymlink $devname cdrw
UNREGISTER ^sr0$ CFUNCTION GLOBAL unlink cdrw

and /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.4
sg
ide-scsi
sr_mod