How do I play a dvd?

[turbine]

OK, baldyeti, I ran both of those commands and here is what I got:

knoppix@nickshp:~$ ls -al /dev/cdrom
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Jun 10 10:31 /dev/cdrom -> /dev/scd0

knoppix@nickshp:~$ ls -alL /dev/dvd
brw-rw---- 1 root cdrom 11, 0 May 31 2001 /dev/dvd
knoppix@nickshp:~$

[baldyeti]

try "sudo chmod 666 /dev/scd0"

"ls -al /dev/scd0" should now display brw-rw-rw-

if it still does not work, make sure scsi emulation is enabled in your /etc/lilo.conf

[turbine]

Here's a laffer:

knoppix@nickshp:~$ sudo chmod 666 /dev/scd0
knoppix is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.
knoppix@nickshp:~$

I was able to issue the command after doing a su

now I get
root@nickshp:/home/knoppix# ls -al /dev/scd0
brw-rw-rw- 1 root cdrom 11, 0 May 31 2001 /dev/scd0

[turbine]

Don't know about scsi emulation, though. I'm not using lilo at all.

[baldyeti]

I was able to issue the command after doing a su/dev/scd0

Erh ... glad to read that, but can you now play a dvd ;-?

[turbine]

Did all of that. Still doesn't work. The operation was a success but the patient died.

[baldyeti]

Don't know about scsi emulation, though. I'm not using lilo at all.

Are you sure ? Maybe its menu just does not show if you're not multi-booting? Anyway, either in /etc/lilo.conf or /boot/grub/menu.lst, your kernel bootup parameters should mention
"hdc=ide-scsi"

I may also be completely off, and perhaps it's your video card/driver that's missing features necessary to play DVD's, as xine seems to complain about that as well.

[turbine]

When I boot knoppix I boot from a floppy diskette. Shouldn't be a problem with my video card since I play dvd's perfectly fine over on win98. Meanwhile I'll check those files.

[baldyeti]

Don't bother they're ignored if you're booting from floppy. Sorry I am running out of suggestions.

[turbine]

The problem is solved but the mystery remains.

Cuddles and baldyeti thank you so much for your help. I'll tell you what the solution was/is but I cannot tell you why.

There exists 2 different boot diskettes. Number 1 is the one that you get when you hdd install knoppix and it asks you to create a startup disk.

Number 2 is the one that you get when you run the mkboot command.

I've been booting with number 2.

When I tried booting with number 1, xine plays those dvd's with no problem.

Go figure.