DVD in xine hard crashes the machine...!

[KShots]

Hello... I've tried running xine, and when I hit the "DVD" button, my dvd-rom light flashes on for a while... and after a bit, everything's frozen. No ctrl-alt-backspace, ctrl-alt-delete, etc.

Here's my symlink to /dev/dvd:

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rich@basilisk dev $ ll /dev/dvd
lr-xr-xr-x    1 root     root           35 Nov  7 12:12 /dev/dvd -> /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target1/lun0/cd

Now the 2nd part of that symlink is yellow... what does yellow mean? Maybe that's the problem...

Anyways, it's an IDE DVD-ROM hooked up to the secondary bus as a slave. It's actually by itself on its cable. I also have a firewire DVD-burner, but I don't have much of a clue on how to tackle that one...

Any ideas?

Oh, and I'm running X with a vesa desktop (on a Radeon 9800 Pro - the ATI drivers just won't work with me... see my thread on that one if you're interested in that problem, but lets stick to the main problem here). The one DVD-ROM is a Creative PC-DVD Encoure (used to have a dxr3 decoder included, but that conflicted with my video card so it's out of the machine). The other is an external Sony DRX-510UL. I can hook that in via firewire or USB 2.0... I chose firewire through my audigy.

EDIT: Oh, and running xine-check gives me:

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rich@basilisk dev $ xine-check
Please be patient, this script may take a while to run...
[ good ] you're using Linux, doing specific tests
[ good ] looks like you have a /proc filesystem mounted.
[ good ] You seem to have a reasonable kernel version (2.4.20-gaming-r3)
[ good ] intel compatible processor, checking MTRR support
[ good ] you have MTRR support and there are some ranges set.
[ good ] found the player at /usr/bin/xine
[ good ] /usr/bin/xine is in your PATH
[ good ] found /usr/bin/xine-config in your PATH
Usage: xine-config [OPTIONS] [LIBRARIES]
Options:
        [--prefix[=DIR]]
        [--exec-prefix[=DIR]]
        [--version]
        [--libs]
        [--acflags]
        [--cflags]
        [--plugindir]
        [--datadir]
        [--scriptdir]
        [--localedir]
[ good ] plugin directory /usr/lib/xine/plugins/1.0.0 exists.
[ good ] found unknown plugin: xineplug_flac.so
[ good ] found input plugins
[ good ] found demux plugins
[ good ] found decoder plugins
[ good ] found video_out plugins
[ good ] found audio_out plugins
[ good ] /dev/cdrom points to /dev/cdroms/../ide/host0/bus1/target1/lun0/cd
[ good ] /dev/dvd points to /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target1/lun0/cd
[ good ] DMA is enabled for your DVD drive
[ good ] found xvinfo: X-Video Extension version 2.2
[ hint ] Your X server doesn't support YUV overlays.
         That means xine will have to to color space transformation and scaling
         in software, which is quite CPU intensive. Maybe upgrading your
         X server will help here.
         If you have an ATI card, you'll find accelerated X servers on
         http://www.linuxvideo.org/gatos/
         press <enter> to continue...

[ hint ] Your X server doesn't support packed YUV overlays.
         That means xine will have to to color space transformation and scaling
         in software, which is quite CPU intensive. Maybe upgrading your
         X server will help here.
         If you have an ATI card, you'll find accelerated X servers on
         http://www.linuxvideo.org/gatos/
         press <enter> to continue...

[ hint ] Your X server doesn't have any XVideo support...
         XVideo is an X server extension introduced by XFree86 4.x. This
         extension provides access to hardware accelerated color space
         conversion and scaling, which gives a great performance boost.
         If you have a fast (>1GHz) machine, you may be able to watch all
         kinds of video, anyway. You will waste lots of CPU cycles, though...
         press <enter> to continue...

[Starblazr]

Have you found the solution to this problem or is it orphaned?

I run a gaming-sources (specifically 2.4.20-gaming-r10), and have no problems with the DVD drive.