On Sun, 2005-09-18 at 20:25 +1000, larinia wrote: > Well, I have done lots of Googling myself for the last few months.
OK, that's great! > Most post started ok, but has no solution to it. Some post has no > reply. Yeah I noticed. But - several of the posts that I saw led to faulty hardware. A few suspected the kernel, but no proof. > I have tried all sorts of thing, I have also libdvdcss, but nothing > worked (for all types of DVD). libdvdcss won't have anything to do with this. It's not reading the disk at all. > I have a feeling it is a faulty drive. So do I. > Is there a way to prove it is the drive that is faulty? There probably is, cos I use a desktop pc, and not a laptop (the scum of proprietary hardware imho and I avoid them like the proverbial plague for those reasons), I'd usually swap the drive over. That quickly tells me if I'm right. Unfortunately, with the nature of laptops, that's not so easily done. You could try a few things: 1. Update the kernel 2. Update the firmware for the dvd device (if at all possible, which I doubt with a laptop). Not easy to do anyways, since most firmware updaters are either dos or windows based. 3. Make sure that the DVD disks are ok (try them in a known working dvd rom drive etc). 4. If you have the ability, try an external dvd rom drive (preferably firewire), it'd be slow, but if it works, then it'd disprove a kernel issue I feel. 5. What does lspci show? Does it show seek errors for that drive? 6. Check that you're a member of the audio and video groups, check the permissions on the dvd drom device etc etc. Basic permissions stuff. 7. Does the disk play normal audio CDs and/or data CDs ok? For audio CDs i'd suggest using kscd - I feel that as long as the audio cable goes to the dvd rom drive, and you have the permissions correct, and the right device selected in kscd, if it fails to still play, it's a hardware issue. Is the machine still under warranty? If so, I'd return it for testing. Make the manufacturer earn their $$$. > I am quite new to Debian, so any help will be appreciated. That's OK. I've been using Debian or Debian based distros now for 3, nearly 4 years, and I'm still learning every day. > Larinia > Best wishes, Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
