From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 26 12:03:47 2003 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 9217016A4BF for ; Tue, 26 Aug 2003 12:03:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sccrmhc12.comcast.net (sccrmhc12.comcast.net [204.127.202.56]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8C0443FE3 for ; Tue, 26 Aug 2003 12:03:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from adamk@voicenet.com) Received: from thorn.ashke.com (pcp04363492pcs.glstrt01.nj.comcast.net[68.44.153.152](untrusted sender)) by comcast.net (sccrmhc12) with SMTP id <2003082619034601200i6bule>; Tue, 26 Aug 2003 19:03:46 +0000 Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 15:03:35 -0400 (EDT) From: Adam K Kirchhoff X-X-Sender: To: freebsd-questions In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Re: firewire vs IDE DVD. 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: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 19:03:47 -0000 Anyone? The same IDE drive plays back DVDs with mplayer under NetBSD without any problems, however NetBSD seems to be using some IDE-to-SCSI emulation. Is it impossible to get IDE DVD drives to play back DVD videose under FreeBSD? On Mon, 25 Aug 2003, Adam K Kirchhoff wrote: > > Me again. > > I've grabbed the output from mplayer and the dump from ktrace/kdump and > posted them at: > > http://memory.visualtech.com/kdump.txt (975 kB) > http://memory.visualtech.com/mplayer.txt (1 kB) > > From mplayer.txt, you see that it's complaing: > > "Couldn't open DVD device: /dev/dvd" > > Now /dev/dvd is a symlink to /dev/acd0: > > [ adamk@sorrow - /usr/home/adamk ]: ls -l /dev/dvd > lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 3 Aug 25 15:54 /dev/dvd -> /dev/acd0 > > And /dev/acd0 looks like: > > [ adamk@sorrow - /usr/home/adamk ]: ls -l /dev/acd0 > crw-r--r-- 1 root operator 117, 0 Aug 25 15:36 /dev/acd0 > > Note: user 'adamk' is part of the 'operator' group. In addition, I've > tried this as root just in case there's some strange permission thing > going on. Still no luck. > > *Any* ideas? > > Adam > > On Mon, 25 Aug 2003, Adam K Kirchhoff wrote: > > > > > I'm hoping someone can help me out here. > > > > I recently moved a firewire card and DVD drive that had been in my FreeBSD > > box to another computer. I replaced it with an IDE DVD drive. The > > probelm is that now I can't get mplayer or vlc to play any DVDs that had > > previously worked with the firewire drive. > > > > I have, of course, made sure that /dev/dvd is a symbolic link to /dev/acd0 > > instead of /dev/cd0 (as it used to be). The only difference that I can > > think of is that FreeBSD sees the firewire drive as a scsi drive and sees > > the ide drive as an ide drive. Is DVD playback just not supported on IDE > > drives on FreeBSD -CURRENT? > > > > Adam > > > > > > > > > >