Hi all-

I've been happily running my first Debian distribution (via Knoppix3.3) for a few days now, and am finally getting around to trying to play a dvd.

I've been able to play dvds on RH9.0 and Mandrake successfully (and without any extra work), and expected the same with Knoppix. But no luck.

Here's some relevant info:
Code:
arky@castalia:/proc/ide/ide1/hdc$ ls -al /dev/dvd
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           10 Feb 11 16:16 /dev/dvd -> /dev/cdrom
Code:
arky@castalia:/proc/ide/ide1/hdc$ cdrecord -scanbus
Linux sg driver version: 3.1.25
Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'.
scsibus0:
      0,0,0     0) 'ATAPI   ' 'CD-RW 32/12/40X ' '140C' Removable CD-ROM
      0,1,0     1) 'IDE     ' 'DVD-ROM 16X     ' '3.10' Removable CD-OM
      [snip...]
scsibus1:
      1,0,0   100) '' '' '' Removable not present Disk [for my Neuros portable ogg player...]
      [snip...]
Code:
arky@castalia:~$ mount
/dev/hdb2 on / type reiserfs (rw)
/dev/root.old on /initrd type ext2 (rw)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
/dev/hda1 on /media type reiserfs (rw)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)
Code:
arky@castalia:~$ less /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: filesystem table.
#
# filesystem  mountpoint  type  options  dump  pass
/dev/hdb2  /  reiserfs  defaults  0  1
/dev/hdb3  none  swap  sw  0  0
proc  /proc  proc  defaults  0  0
/dev/fd0  /floppy  vfat  defaults,user,noauto,showexec,umask=022  0  0
/dev/cdrom /cdrom  iso9660  defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto  0  0
/dev/cdrom1 /cdrom1  iso9660  defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto  0  0
/dev/dvd /dvd  iso9660  defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto  0  0
/dev/cdaudio /cdaudio  iso9660  defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto  0  0
# Added by KNOPPIX
/dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 reiserfs noauto,users,exec 0 0
# Added by KNOPPIX
/dev/hdb1 /mnt/hdb1 ext3 noauto,users,exec 0 0
/dev/sda1 /media/neuros vfat user,noauto,rw,umask=000 0 0
I've also run xine-check a couple times...here's the relevant output:
Code:
[ hint ] Your DVD drive seems not to be attached via ATAPI.
       This might be due to the use of an ide-scsi emulation.
       If you really have a SCSI DVD drive, your SCSI controller is likely
       to do perfect DMA, so there's no reason to worry about this.
       However, if you're using ide-scsi, there is a chance that DMA is
       disabled for the DVD drive. Moreover, I don't know how to enable
       DMA in that case, so you probably have to live with some performance
       loss. (FIXME: check for /proc/ide, provide solution)
       press <enter> to continue...
[OUCH!!] There are no input plugins.
       xine needs at least one input plugin, but none is installed.
       You should probably reinstall xine-lib...
       press <enter> to continue...
[snip...it does the same for all the different plugins one would need]
[OUCH!!] There are no audio_out plugins.
       xine needs at least one audio_out plugin, but none is installed.
       You should probably reinstall xine-lib...
       press <enter> to continue...
In conclusion, I have no idea as to how to proceed. It seems like it may be an IDE/SCSI issue, or a software issue (the xine plugins...it suggests reinstalling xine-lib, but I don't see why the apt-get installation of xine-gui wouldn't install the appropriate libs...oy!).

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

Will Maier