DVD playing woes...Please help

[Bradley M Alexander]

Hello,,

I have been trying to get dvds to work on my machin and have a couple of 
questions  I tried most all of the X-based dvd players and I have yet to
watch a DVD on my Linux box. Fortunately, I have a dual-boot Mac Powerbook
that I can watch DVDs on (its the only reason I keep MacOS around...:)

Let me give you my system specs and situation, and hopefully you will have
a solution. My machine, defiant is as follows:

1GHz Athlon-C (266MHz FSB)
Asus A7V133 Motherboard
640MB PC133 RAM
30GB Maxtor HD (on /dev/hda)
30GB Quantum HD (on /dev/hdb)
Matshita SR-8586 (on /dev/hdc, using IDE-SCSI emulation, so /dev/sr0)
LG CD-RW CED-8120B (on /dev/hdd, also IDE-SCSI, /dev/sr1)
SBLive Platinum 5.1
nVidia GeForce 2 Pro/64MB

Softwarewise, I'm running Debian/GNU Linux (sid/unstable), and I am running
devfs (which is also why I haven't set up /dev/dvd permanently yet). I'm
running kernel 2.4.9.

As I said, I have tried vlc, xine, ogle and OMS, and have gotten none of
them to work. With vlc, which I just tried again based on an article on
machineofthemonth.org, when I try to run as my user, I get 

 [storm at defiant lib]$ vlc 
 VideoLAN Client - version 0.2.83 Ourumov - (C)1996-2001 VideoLAN

 Inconsistency detected by ld.so: dl-deps.c: 495: _dl_map_object_deps:
 Assertion `map->l_searchlist.r_list[0] == map' failed!

However, when I run it as root, it seems to want to work. I had to upgrade
libdvdcss to 0.0.3, but when I fire up vlc, and click disc, if I change the
device to either /dev/sr0 or /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/cd, I can hear
the drive spin up. But when I click play, nothing happens. Unfortuantely, I
have had no luck in selectively employing ide-scsi. 

Can anyone give me any ideas about what I'm doing wrong?

Regards,
-- 
--Brad
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Bradley M. Alexander, CISSP              |   Co-Chairman,
Beowulf System Admin/Security Specialist |    NoVALUG/DCLUG Security SIG
Debian/GNU Linux Developer		 |   storm at debian.org
                                         |   storm at tux.org
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You can't have everything...where would you put it?

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-- 
--Brad
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Bradley M. Alexander, CISSP              |   Co-Chairman,
Beowulf System Admin/Security Specialist |    NoVALUG/DCLUG Security SIG
Debian/GNU Linux Developer		 |   storm at debian.org
                                         |   storm at tux.org
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