On Thu, 21 Apr 2011 23:02:27 -0500, Antonio Olivares <olivares14...@gmail.com> wrote: > This is on mt TODO list, I was going to try and swap another dvd drive > (SATA) which is my suspicion :(
"Cross-testing" would always be good - especially as you've mentioned an "impossible" behaviour, i. e. mounting a DVD causes a system reboot. > I'd think I'd have to agree :(, the damn dvd drive, it is new but old > IDE does not work as well as SATA. I can't confirm that. In my machine which is more than 7 years old now, I'm using (P)ATA / ATAPI stuff only (because it doesn't have any SATA inside), and it keeps working as intended. Still it may be possible that "modern" hardware doesn't play that good anymore. :-) If possible, just try a different DVD drive, as you've eleminated the reason "bad DVD" already. > I have a /etc/devfs.conf file with the following: > > # Commonly used by many ports > link acd0 cdrom > link acd0 dvd > > # Allow all users to access CD’s > perm /dev/acd0 0666 > perm /dev/acd1 0666 > perm /dev/cd0 0666 > perm /dev/cd1 0666 > > # Allow all USB Devices to be mounted > perm /dev/da0 0666 > perm /dev/da1 0666 > perm /dev/da2 0666 > perm /dev/da3 0666 > perm /dev/da4 0666 > > # Misc other devices > perm /dev/pass0 0666 > perm /dev/xpt0 0666 > perm /dev/agpart 0666 > perm /dev/uscanner0 0666 Fully okay. So the reason "wrong permissions" is also out of scope now. > VLC did not play the dvds either, took a while to compile it(for > troubleshooting this dvd problem). I like both players just to be > honest. I really think it's the drive. Also make sure that the codecs are installed. If you're on x64, try to use the COMPAT32 facility. As I'm not owning x64 at home, I sadly can't be more specific about this idea. > I have a similar amd64 machine that does play mostly everything in it, > but I installed mplayer differently > # pkg_add -r mplayer This installs mplayer with the default options which may not be optimal in some situations, especially if it's illegal in one's country to watch DVDs. :-) > ** had problems with KDE and lib???.so not working and startx refused > to work, last time I used ports. I always use ports for this. Although I'm a big fan of precompiled packages, mplayer and gmencoder are the tools I *insist* on building from source, both with a custom Makefile.local that defines ALL the codecs I want, which is _all_ of them. :-) > *However* that machine has SATA cables not IDE like this one, this is > my take on the issue. If i install/try a SATA dvd drive, it will > work* Really, try a different drive, and if you can, also try different cables, just to make sure it's NOT the cables causing trouble. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
