From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 18 11:38:35 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AAEB116A4CE for ; Sun, 18 Jan 2004 11:38:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from gldis.ca (constans.gldis.ca [66.11.169.73]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C41C43D54 for ; Sun, 18 Jan 2004 11:38:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gldisater@gldis.ca) Received: from gldis.ca (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gldis.ca (8.12.8p2/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i0IJZeBc021248; Sun, 18 Jan 2004 14:35:42 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from gldisater@gldis.ca) Message-ID: <400AE145.6050806@gldis.ca> Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 14:40:53 -0500 From: Jeremy Faulkner User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040117 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Benjamin Walkenhorst References: <20040118202020.363c1b86.krylon@gmx.net> In-Reply-To: <20040118202020.363c1b86.krylon@gmx.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=no X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.60 (1.212-2003-09-23-exp) on constans.gldis.ca cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Watching DVDs in 5.2 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 19:38:35 -0000 Benjamin Walkenhorst wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I recently installed FreeBSD 5.2 on my Desktop machine. So far I am > very pleased. I tried 5.0 in June, and I did not find it suitable for my > needs, yet. Now the ISDN-card is gone from my machine and TV works in > overlay-mode. =) So I am actually considering to make FreeBSD my primary > OS on my desktop machine. > There are some problems to be solved, though, most pressingly > DVD-playback. ;-/ > I installed mplayer and ogle via ports. They don't work... > All I get is the following error message from mplayer: > -------------------------------------------- > Playing DVD title 1 > Reading disc structure, please wait... > libdvdread: Can't open file VIDEO_TS.IFO. > Can't open VMG info! > -------------------------------------------- I only get this message when I force my dvd drive into DMA when it would normally use PIO4. > > Mmmh... I would like to watch DVDs pretty much, so what can I do? > I tried reinstalling them, I made sure libdvd* is installed properly... > And, yes, /dev/dvd is a symbolic link to /dev/acd0 which again has chmod > 666. > > Some more about the machine: > uname -a: > FreeBSD neuromancer.krylon.net 5.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE #2: Mon > Jan 12 18:25:33 CET 2004 > root@neuromancer.krylon.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/NEUROMANCER i386 > > relevant parts of /var/run/dmesg.boot: > > atapci0: port 0xd000-0xd00f at device > 7.1 on pci0 atapci0: Correcting VIA config for southbridge data > corruption bug ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0 > ata0: [MPSAFE] > ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0 > ata1: [MPSAFE] Where are the listings for the drives? > > result of 'atacontrol info 1': > > Master: no device present > Slave: acd0 ATA/ATAPI rev 0 > > I'm afraid the problem is more application- or library-related... Who > can give me a hint? I think you should put the drive into PIO and try again. > > Kind regards, > > Thank you very much, > > Benjamin -- Jeremy Faulkner http://www.gldis.ca