dvd help

cf25 · Apprentice Joined: 20 Jun 2002 Posts: 158

so i emerged ogle and got all that fun stuff for my dvd player. well, i dont have a /dev/dvd and i am not sure how to go about getting it. i have a /mnt/cdrom and that is in my /etc/fstab. can someone help me?

jimmybfan · Posted: Wed Jul 03, 2002 5:04 am Post subject:

you need to make a link.
su to root and
ln -s /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /dev/dvd

this will create a symbolic link called dvd pointing to the first cdrom device on your system. If your dvd is the second device change to cdrom1

delta407 · Posted: Wed Jul 03, 2002 5:41 am Post subject:

No, don't make a link. It'll get destroyed once you reboot. Go into /etc/devfsd.conf and add a symlink there. Then, "killall -HUP devfsd" to reload your config, and you will suddenly have a symlink that doesn't go away.
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KiTaSuMbA · Guru Joined: 28 Jun 2002 Posts: 430 Location: Naples Italy

you just configure ogle to look in /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 instead of /dev/dvd

At least that's what I did on vlc...
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slonocode · Apprentice Joined: 03 Jun 2002 Posts: 273

Look in your devfs.conf file and there should already be lines for making the link you want. You should only need to uncomment them as in remove the beginning # from the lines.

cf25 · Apprentice Joined: 20 Jun 2002 Posts: 158

do i make that link in the same fasion that the previos post told me to, just in that file?

abhishek · Posted: Wed Jul 03, 2002 8:09 pm Post subject:

I thogut that now when u made links they stayed.

Disquiet · Posted: Wed Jul 03, 2002 9:04 pm Post subject:

I did a
ln -s /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /dev/dvd

and it's still here after several reboots!

delta407 · Posted: Thu Jul 04, 2002 3:14 am Post subject:

jimmybfan · Posted: Thu Jul 04, 2002 5:29 am Post subject:

symbolic links now stay in /dev even when using devfs. forget when that was added but it's been a while