Watching DVDs in 5.2

[Jeremy Faulkner]

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 at 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


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