On Sun, 2006-03-12 at 01:45 -0600, John Pierce wrote: > I have just installed Fedora 4 on an IBM Thinkpad T21, I had to > install from cd's as the DVD/CDRW drive would not read the DVD install > disc. > > After installing and update Fedora I tried to watch a dvd movie, then > tried to mount the install dvd and the drive will not recognize either > of them. > > I ran cdrecord -scanbus and this is the result: > 'MATSHITA' 'DVD-ROM SR-8175 ' 'G228' Removable CD-ROM > > I know that I have a DVD-ROM SR-8175 with firmware G228. I started > looking at possible region problems and ran a utility called > dvd_region and this was the output. > > Drive region info: > Type: Drive region is set > 4 vendor resets available > 4 user controlled changes available > Region: 1 playable > RPC Scheme: The Logical Unit _shall_ adhere to the specification and > all requirements of the CSS license agreement concerning RPC > > >From this output I came to the conclusion that the drive is RPC-1 or > region free, so why can I not mount a dvd-disc. > > This is a snip from anaconda-syslog > > hdc: ATAPI 24X DVD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache, UDMA(33) > > I have no idea how to resolve this. > > Any pointers would be greatly appreciated. > I think you need the utilities to read and decode DVDs. I used rpmforge (and a couple pieces from livna) and installed the following. It works for me. yum install dvd\* libdvd\* xine\* This got me the list below. I think the only part that was absolutely needed was the libdvdread, libdvdplay, and libdvdcss for decoding and playing the DVD. I use xine to play the DVD. Dvd+rw tools is needed for writing DVDs, but I am not sure which is needed just to mount one; although if I had to guess it may be libdvdread. $ rpm -qa dvd\* dvd+rw-tools-5.21.4.10.8-6 dvdstyler-1.4-0.lvn.3.4 dvdauthor-0.6.11-1.2.fc4.rf dvdbackup-0.1.1-1.2.fc4.rf $ rpm -qa libdvd\* libdvdread-devel-0.9.4-7.2.fc4.rf libdvdplay-1.0.1-0.2.fc4.rf libdvdnav-devel-0.1.10-0.lvn.1.4 libdvdread-0.9.4-7.2.fc4.rf libdvdnav-0.1.10-0.lvn.1.4 libdvdcss-1.2.9-1.2.fc4.rf libdvdplay-devel-1.0.1-0.2.fc4.rf libdvdcss-devel-1.2.9-1.2.fc4.rf $ rpm -qa xine\* xine-skins-1.10-2.2.fc4.rf xine-0.99.4-3.2.fc4.rf xine-lib-1.1.1-1.2.fc4.rf > John > -- > Registered Linux User 263680, get counted at > http://counter.li.org >
