Root

Anyone know how to add DVD functionality to this? If there is, can someone explain it in plain engligh?

Cheers
Root

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Mateo

What you need is to get MPlayer, or Xine from a debian repository, or if you have a legit copy of Xandros, grab it from Xandros Networks. The stock media player in Xandros is crap.

While you are at it, download Amarok, and install that for all your Mp3 needs.

I can walk you through the installation if you need it.

Root

As opposed to an illegitamate copy of linux? Does such a thing even exist?

I got the free download from the xandros website, and I have xine downloaded and unzipped. When I tried to follow the install instructions on the xine website, they were really badly written. I unzipped to /usr/local/xine-lib-1.0.1 and the front end unzipped to /usr/local/xine-ui-0.99.3. What do I need to do from here?

Your help is much appreciated Mateo!

Root

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Mateo

Yeah, I have a copy of Xandros that is a copy of a buddies...same with Linspire. It's a gray area, since you can download both for free, but cannot use the services or networks. I guess I was asking if you paid for it and had access to the network.

As for xine, I would stop right where you are, delete the files, and follow this thread:

http://forums.xandros.com/viewtopic.php?t=708

Add the debian sarge repository to Xandros Network, and use that to install xine. You are missing at least one library that I know of (liddvdcss), but could be missing others.

Come to think of it, XN is just synaptic, rebranded. Couldn't you just install from there?

Root

I just had a lok at that link, and my brain started trying to get away. Much techo jargon, which unfortunately, goes with the linux territory. I'll have another look at it when I'm in the right frame of mind. Thanks Mateo!

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It turns out that xine is actually installed as part of the xandros install. However, when I fire it up and hit the dvd button, I get 2 errors. The first one reads

xine engine error. there is no input plugin available to handle dvd:/ Maybe MRL syntax is wrong or file/stream source doesn't exist

the second one simply says

/dev/dvd

VCD, CD etc are all fine, only the DVD button gives me an error. Any ideas?
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Mateo

Maybe the one is related to the other.

Manually mount the DVD, then see if xine catches it. If not, maybe they left the decss file out.

Root

How? Am I right in thinking I go into bash or whatever to do this? Whats the command line?

Cheers
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Mateo

Yep. The command line should be mount /dev/dvd, since Xandros is debian. You may need to add a zero at the end (the command would then be mount /dev/dvd0, depending on how the Xandros crew set up the kernel.

Root

Ok, went into console, tried mount /dev/dvd and mount /dev/dvd0 and got the same error with both

mount: can't find /dev/hdc in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab

and

mount: can't find /dev/dvd0 in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab

respectively.

Typed mount so see what was mounted and got this

dev/hda1 on / type reiserfs (rw)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw,devmode=0666)
automount(pid3845) on /var/autofs/floppy.1 type autofs (rw,fd=6,pgrp=3845,minproto=2,maxproto=4)
automount(pid3852) on /var/autofs/cdrom.1 type autofs (rw,fd=6,pgrp=3852,minproto=2,maxproto=4)
/dev/hda5 on /disks/C type vfat (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,umask=0,uid=1001,gid=1001)

Don't know if anything there helps solve the problem? I did man mount and I'm currently wading through the techno babble. The syntax appears to be mount dev type dir so I tried mount /dev/dvd0 DVD and got an error saying only root could do this. I switched to root and tried it again and it laughed at me with this error

mount: can't find /dev/hdc in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab

I'll keep trying for a while, but if you can think of an answer I'd sure be grateful!

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These lines were amongs thoese that came up when I did ls in /dev

cdrom ippp19 ippp60 isdn44 isdnctrl27 kmsg ptyb5 ptye3 ptyr1 ptytf ptywd ptyzb tty20 tty62
cdrom0 ippp2 ippp61 isdn45 isdnctrl28 log ptyb6 ptye4 ptyr2 ptyu0 ptywe ptyzc tty21 tty63
cdroms ippp20 ippp62 isdn46 isdnctrl29 loop ptyb7 ptye5 ptyr3 ptyu1 ptywf ptyzd tty22 tty7

dvd ippp25 isdn0 isdn50 isdnctrl33 loop4 ptybc ptyea ptyr8 ptyu6 ptyx4 ram10 tty27 ttyS2

Tried mounting again from within /dev

laptop:/dev# mount /dev/dvd0 dvd
mount: special device /dev/dvd0 does not exist
laptop:/dev# mount /dev/dvd dvd
mount: No medium found

When I tried mount /dev/dvd and mount /dev/dvd0 I still get the same errors as before.

I had a look in /etc/fstab.h and its pretty scary in there.

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Mateo

Roger that. I'm stumped. Quick question:it's a laptop, right? Same drive is DVD/CD Rom? I'm thinking that the automount might be a problem.

How about trying to force the unmount on the cdrom, and the dvd, then remounting manually?

umount -f /dev/cdrom
umount -f /dev/dvd

then try:

mount /dev/dvd

Root

Yep its a compaq presario 700series with a combo dvd/cdrw drive

laptop:/# umount -f /dev/cdrom
umount2: Invalid argument
umount: /dev/cdrom: Illegal seek
laptop:/# umount -f /dev/dvd
umount2: Invalid argument
umount: /dev/dvd: Illegal seek

laptop:/# mount /dev/dvd
mount: mount point /media/dvd does not exist

It's times like this when you can understand how gates got the market cornered

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Mateo

Try it without the -f flag. -f usually allows you to force the dismount when the system doesn't want to let go.

Just think, all this stuff happens in the background on windows as well, you jsut don't see it.

Not that that is a bad thing.

I'm stumped. Something weird about Xandros, by which I mean, there is some specific change to stock debian that they made to "make things easier" which is making your life harder.

How sold are you on Xandros?

Root

If there's another distro that will install as easy as xandros (the setup was like a cutdown version of win98 setup), let me configure my network (linux laptop, windows desktop, router), comes with firefox, *and* plays dvd out of the box, just point me to the download

Root

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