On 10 Jul, this message from Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra echoed through cyberspace: > I am trying to use /dev/rdvd as a symbolic link to /dev/raw/raw1, as > per the xine instructions to try to make DVD viewing usable. > > The thing is that xine claims to be unable to use the raw device. > > /dev/raw/raw1 and /dev/rdvd have precisely the same disk group > owernship and rwxrwxr_x permissions as have /dev/hdc, /dev/dvd and > /dev/cdrom, and these work just fine, even if slowly...
Yes. Are you sure your kernel supports raw device access: pooh:/mnt# cat /proc/devices|grep raw 162 raw If you don't get that line, your kernel doesn't support raw device access (or it's compiled as a module?). Cheers Michel ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michel Lanners | " Read Philosophy. Study Art. 23, Rue Paul Henkes | Ask Questions. Make Mistakes. L-1710 Luxembourg | email [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cpu.lu/~mlan | Learn Always. "
