Re: [SLE] CD/DVD Combo drive problem (Was: DVD playing problem)

From: Krikket (krikket_at_gothpoodle.com)
Date: 11/15/03

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    #1 has been solved -- see below
    #2 is still a major problem. Also see below. (If I can't figure this out
    be next week, I'll probably just reinstall SuSE from scratch. Hate to do
    it, but...)

    On Fri, 14 Nov 2003, Krikket wrote:

    > >On Wednesday 12 November 2003 03:07, Rohit wrote:
    > >> I was playing DVD on Linux using mplayer which is home-built using
    > >> libdvdnav and libdvdread [not libdvdcss]. The playabck starts, and then
    > >> becomes jittery, and then pauses intermittently and finally hangs
    > >> after two minutes of play.
    > >
    > >Do you have your drive set to us DMA?
    > This is typical behaviour when not useing dma. Set this in YAST not via
    > hdparms. Yast does it at the right time, hdparms is after idescsi, and
    > often fails.
    >
    > Two questions:
    >
    > 1> In attempting to set up for DMA (not knowing what it was (or is) I went
    > into YASY hardware config / CD Drives, and saw that my CD/DVD drive, while
    > listed, wasn't selected. So I selected it. This caused things to break,
    > and I don't know how to fix 'em... I'll explain in a moment.
    >
    > 2> Before I get too far off the topic, exactly what is DMA, and how do
    > you set it up?

    Duh. The answer is YAST -> Hardware Config -> DMA mode.

    Sometimes you need to use a flashing billboard to get my attention, it
    seems. *Sigh*

    > Okay. Back to my new problem. Now the CD-RW/DVD (combo) drive works as a
    > CD-ROM only. Well, probably a CD-RW as well, but I havn't tested it out
    > yet. And it reads DVDs. But when a DVD is in the drive, I no longer see
    > the nifty CD-Recordable icon change to read "DVD" -- which implies that
    > this is a system problem. When I go into Xine to try to play the DVD, it
    > can't find /dev/dvd. Until now, I have had no problem accessing the DVDs
    > through xine. (Well, not completely true, I was getting very jerky
    > feedback, which is what caused me to seach the archives and find the above
    > message from a few days ago.)
    >
    > So I go back in remove it. Now I've lost the entire drive -- Linux can't
    > see it at all! It appears that some bizzare half-setting is the correct
    > setting for my CD/DVD drive, but I only have "Add" and "Remove" as
    > options. I don't see a way to manually edit things. (For that matter,
    > I'm not sure what they should be set to... But I am willing to play
    > around and guess...)
    >
    > I'm running SuSE 9.0 on a fresh install, and have loaded the patches
    > available from the website. I've removed xine from the system, and loaded
    > a non-crippled version that was working smoothly (aside from the
    > aforementioned problem).
    >
    > I'm at a loss here. Any ideas/suggestions/thoughts on how to get my DVD
    > functionallity back?

    Since then I've done more tinkering...

    I figured that if I removed and reinstalled the CD/DVD drive, it should
    work right, yes? Nope.

    YAST is smart enough to see the drive gone (when it's not plugged in). I
    saved those settings anyway. Just in case.

    Reconnect the CD/DVD, and I'm back to square one.

    So I did it *again* only this time shutting off YASTs "integration" of the
    CD-ROM to my desktop. Maybe some setting was kept...

    And the same results.

    So I'm finally stumped. Any pointers / suggestions / comments / flashing
    billboards / etc out there?

    Krikket 

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