Dean
Adam wrote:
> I have been trying for the past couple of years trying to play DVDs on
> my Linux box and every time I run into some road blocks. i have studied
> what other people have asked in the archives with a search of DVD in the
> subject and body and also in the users.debian lists also. I have read
> and tried the many suggestions and can not figure why I am having some
> issues.
>
> These are my recent steps I have taken lately.
>
> 1. according to some links I recompiled my kernel with the ide-cd
> module and ide-scsi as separate modules and did a
>
> modprobe ide-scsi
>
> modprobe sr_mod
>
> Here is a segment of my dmesg
> ...
> Probing IDE interface ide0...
> hda: IC35L120AVV207-0, ATA DISK drive
> hdb: QUANTUM FIREBALLP LM30, ATA DISK drive
> hda: Enabling Ultra DMA 4
> hdb: Enabling Ultra DMA 4
> Probing IDE interface ide1...
> hdc: MATSHITAPD-2 LF-D110, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
> hdd: IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI, ATAPI FLOPPY drive
> hdc: Enabling MultiWord DMA 2
> Probing IDE interface ide2...
> ide0 at 0xf256f000-0xf256f007,0xf256f160 on irq 19
> ide1 at 0xf2573000-0xf2573007,0xf2573160 on irq 20
> hda: attached ide-disk driver.
> hda: max request size: 1024KiB
> hda: host protected area => 1
> hda: 241254720 sectors (123522 MB) w/1821KiB Cache, CHS=15017/255/63, UDMA(66)
> hdb: attached ide-disk driver.
> hdb: host protected area => 1
> hdb: 58633344 sectors (30020 MB) w/1900KiB Cache, CHS=58168/16/63, UDMA(66)
> hdd: attached ide-floppy driver.
> hdd: No disk in drive
> hdd: 98304kB, 96/64/32 CHS, 4096 kBps, 512 sector size, 2941 rpm
> ...
> hdc: attached ide-cdrom driver.
> hdc: ATAPI DVD-ROM DVD-RAM drive, 2048kB Cache, DMA
> Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
> ...
> SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
> scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
>
>
>
>
> 2. When I run gxine I get this output on the terminal
>
>
> $ gxine
> server: trying to connect to already running instance of gxine (/admin/root/linux/.gxine/socket)...
> connect: Connection refused
> server: socket '/admin/root/linux/.gxine/socket' created
> libgnomevfs.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory.
> lirc: lirc_init failed. Make sure that you have lircd running
> lirc: and that you have the permissions to connect to the socket
> libdvdnav: Using dvdnav version 1-rc4a from _http://xine.sf.net_
> libdvdread: Encrypted DVD support unavailable.
> libdvdnav: DVD Title: MASTER_AND_COMMANDER_D1
> libdvdnav: DVD Serial Number: 30349CC0
> libdvdnav: DVD Title (Alternative): MASTER_AND_COMMANDER_D1
> libdvdnav: Unable to find map file '/admin/root/linux/.dvdnav/MASTER_AND_COMMANDER_D1.map'
> libdvdnav: DVD disk reports itself with Region mask 0x00fe0000. Regions: 1
> libdvdnav: Suspected RCE Region Protection!!!
>
> [Right before the menu starts up this is outputted to the terminal and quits]
>
> libdvdread: Invalid IFO for title 1 (VTS_01_0.IFO).
> libdvdnav: ifoOpenVTSI failed - CRASHING!!!
> libdvdnav: ifoRead_VTS_PTT_SRPT failed - CRASHING!!!
> libdvdnav: ifoRead_PGCIT failed - CRASHING!!!
> libdvdnav: ifoRead_PGCI_UT failed - CRASHING!!!
> libdvdnav: ifoRead_VOBU_ADMAP vtsi failed - CRASHING
> libdvdnav: ifoRead_TITLE_VOBU_ADMAP vtsi failed - CRASHING
> Segmentation fault
>
>
>
> 3. While running gxine I
>
> tail -f /var/log/syslog-logs/syslog
>
> and get this response loged when gxine quits....
>
> Jul 6 20:30:48 localhost kernel: hdc: command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> Jul 6 20:30:48 localhost kernel: hdc: command error: error=0x50
> Jul 6 20:30:48 localhost kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 16:00 (hdc), sector 36992
>
>
> I recompiled the kernel thinking if I included
>
> CONFIG_IDEDISK_MULTI_MODE = Y
>
> It would take care of the SeekComplete error but it did not and still continues to output the same error.
>
>
>
>
> My bane: This has been a bane of my linux experience and very annoying to me because everyone else can get it to work but for some reason I cannot on my system. I have been trying for the last 4 years and I must be loosing my head by now. Can some one help me with this... I have exhausted my knowledge and from the Internet and the mailing lists? Thanks in advanced....
>
> -Adam
>