Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 14:40:53 -0500 From: Jeremy Faulkner <gldisater@gldis.ca> To: Benjamin Walkenhorst <krylon@gmx.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Watching DVDs in 5.2 Message-ID: <400AE145.6050806@gldis.ca> In-Reply-To: <20040118202020.363c1b86.krylon@gmx.net> References: <20040118202020.363c1b86.krylon@gmx.net>
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Benjamin Walkenhorst wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I recently installed FreeBSD 5.2 on my Desktop machine. So far I am > very pleased. I tried 5.0 in June, and I did not find it suitable for my > needs, yet. Now the ISDN-card is gone from my machine and TV works in > overlay-mode. =) So I am actually considering to make FreeBSD my primary > OS on my desktop machine. > There are some problems to be solved, though, most pressingly > DVD-playback. ;-/ > I installed mplayer and ogle via ports. They don't work... > All I get is the following error message from mplayer: > -------------------------------------------- > Playing DVD title 1 > Reading disc structure, please wait... > libdvdread: Can't open file VIDEO_TS.IFO. > Can't open VMG info! > -------------------------------------------- I only get this message when I force my dvd drive into DMA when it would normally use PIO4. > > Mmmh... I would like to watch DVDs pretty much, so what can I do? > I tried reinstalling them, I made sure libdvd* is installed properly... > And, yes, /dev/dvd is a symbolic link to /dev/acd0 which again has chmod > 666. > > Some more about the machine: > uname -a: > FreeBSD neuromancer.krylon.net 5.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE #2: Mon > Jan 12 18:25:33 CET 2004 > root@neuromancer.krylon.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/NEUROMANCER i386 > > relevant parts of /var/run/dmesg.boot: > > atapci0: <VIA 82C686B UDMA100 controller> port 0xd000-0xd00f at device > 7.1 on pci0 atapci0: Correcting VIA config for southbridge data > corruption bug ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0 > ata0: [MPSAFE] > ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0 > ata1: [MPSAFE] Where are the listings for the drives? > > result of 'atacontrol info 1': > > Master: no device present > Slave: acd0 <LITEON DVD-ROM LTD122/IL5A> ATA/ATAPI rev 0 > > I'm afraid the problem is more application- or library-related... Who > can give me a hint? I think you should put the drive into PIO and try again. > > Kind regards, > > Thank you very much, > > Benjamin -- Jeremy Faulkner http://www.gldis.ca
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