dvdcss can't open device

[Gildas Bazin]

On Saturday 02 March 2002 13:33, Walter Logeman wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am in the process of setting up vlc.  I seem to be
> almost there - I have the GUI come up and I can get it to play
> the warning MPEG file about copyright. However that is about all
> I can get.
> 
> I suspect it is not a vlc problem but more a setting up the DVD
> device - a newbie situation I am afraid - and am working on that
> - but it just might also be a vlc question.  I have the combo DVD
> CW-RW drive set up as cdrom as scd0.
> 

I have a config similar to this one. This is what I did to use the ide-scsi 
emulation:
- configure the kernel for SCSI support, SCSI CD-ROM support, SCSI generic 
support.
- configure the kernel for SCSI emulation support in the "IDE, ATA and ATAPI 
Block devices" section.
- use the "hdb=scsi" kernel boot parameter (and not hdb=ide-scsi). You should 
then see something along these lines in the boot log (dmesg):

ide-cd: passing drive hdb to ide-scsi emulation.
...
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
  Vendor: blablabla  Model: blablabla           Rev: 1.50
  Type:   CD-ROM                             ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 24x/24x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray

- now you should be able to use /dev/sr0 as your cdrom/dvdrom device.

Hope this helps.

--
Gildas

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