New User - Start ?

[Samuel Hocevar]

On Sun, Aug 12, 2001, mpierce wrote:

> The newer version 2.8.0 for Mandrake is calling for XFree86-4.1. 

   You can try to compile vlc, then.

> >    Do you have read/write permissions to /dev/dvd and the device it
> > points to in case it is a symlink ?
> 
> brw-------    1 mpierce  cdrom     22,   0 Sep 27  2000 /dev/hdc
> 
> Trying vlc as user producing this message (program launching but no ability 
> to open a file):
>  
> [mpierce at localhost VLC]$ vlc

   Use "vlc dvd:/dev/dvd" if you don't have a GUI.

-- 
Sam.