Thanks for the reply, but I don't believe this to be the case as I did a clean install of Fedora Core 2 onto my system after wiping out my root partition. My home partition is on a second drive (reiserfs), so it was not such a big deal to wipe out the root partition.
Ian
> Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2004 13:24:23 +0100
> From: Peter Silcock <smallcreep@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: Xine under Fedora Core 2
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
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> I also have brw against /dev/hdc with a symbolic link from
> /dev/dvd. My
> problem was that I didn't remove the ide=scsi option from grub.conf > when
> I upgraded from FC1. Once I removed that everything was fine
> (almost) -
> though I don't use kaffeine.
>
> Peter Silcock
>
> Ian Hilliard wrote:
>
>> Has anyone been able to get xine / kaffeine running under Fedora Core
>> 2. I have been looking at the problem for a couple of days now. The
>> problem appears to be with accessing the DVD drive. Mplayer on the
>> other hand has no problems.
>>
>> I'm sure that I am just missing something. I first installed fedora
>> over my RH9 installation and xine worked very well. Unfortunately the
>> installation was such a train wreck in so many other areas. Now
>> kaffeine believes that it has insufficient rights to access the drive
>> although ls -l indicates that /dev/hdc is brw------- . I figure that
>> should be sufficient.
>>
>> Does anyone have an idea where else to look for the problem?
>>
>> Ian
