adding DVD drive please help!

[ges531]

HOW DO I GET MY DVD DRIVE WORKING???

Just recently got an IBM NetVista refurbished computer and it's pretty nice. I have Slackware 11 going on it nicely. I installed the codecs for xine, my video card, did some other misc. things to to get it hooked up.

Well my problem is that it came with a CD drive on top and the guy at the computer store added a DVD RW drive under it. Slackware reads the top CD Drive great. My computer can read the DVD drive because that's what I used to install Slackware in the first place. If I go into system and want to look at the files that a audio CD contains, I can't . It can however play audio cd's.

the DVD drive doesn't even show up in the system folder but I know it should be working, it works in other distro's.

The DVD Writer is a LITEON 18x. It seems like it might be recognized when linux first boots I'm really not sure. I just need help on this one.

[thebiggiantmouse]

this is what slack seems to do by default do this (as root)

"mkdir /mnt/cdrom2" (this creates a mount point for the second device)
now type
"dmesg | grep CD" (this should output all the recognised cd/dvd devices on your system)
now type in
"pico /etc/fstab"
you should get an output in your terminal like this

 /dev/sda5        swap             swap        defaults         0   0
/dev/sda2        /mnt/WinXP       ntfs        owner,ro,umask=000,gid=000         1   1
/dev/sda6        /                reiserfs    defaults         1   1
/dev/sda7        /home            reiserfs    defaults         1   2
/dev/cdrom       /mnt/cdrom       auto        users,noauto,owner,ro  0   0
/dev/sdb1         /mnt/flash       auto        users,noauto,owner     0   0
devpts           /dev/pts         devpts      gid=5,mode=620   0   0
proc             /proc            proc        defaults         0   0 
  

now edit it to look like this

 /dev/sda5        swap             swap        defaults         0   0
/dev/sda2        /mnt/WinXP       ntfs        owner,ro,umask=000,gid=000         1   1
/dev/sda6        /                reiserfs    defaults         1   1
/dev/sda7        /home            reiserfs    defaults         1   2
/dev/cdrom       /mnt/cdrom       auto        users,noauto,owner,ro  0   0
/dev/hdd        /mnt/cdrom2       auto        users,noauto,owner,ro  0   0
/dev/sdb1         /mnt/flash       auto        users,noauto,owner     0   0
devpts           /dev/pts         devpts      gid=5,mode=620   0   0
proc             /proc            proc        defaults         0   0 
  

and that should do it

[kern]

Thats assuming his device will be /dev/hdd

If you for a start, actually fit the drive to your computer and boot up slack, you might find UDEV has given it a device node of "/dev/dvd" already. You can use this in your /etc/fstab entry too.

[ges531]

K, I added this line...

/dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom2 auto users,noauto,owner,ro 0 0

and now my drive works how I want it to.

I also changed...

/dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom2 auto noauto,owner,ro 0 0

to

/dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom2 auto users,noauto,owner,ro 0 0

and now the users can see files on audio cd's and stuff.

Cool, thanks

[ges531]

ahh..

One more problem..

k, I installed libdvdcss and to the best of my knowledge it installed successfully, but I still can't play DVD movies?!

Not sure what to do. Once I get that set Slackware will be running awesome.

[ges531]

scratch that... everything was working right i just had to point xine to my dvd drive. stupid me.