Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[Eastern Counties]

I use Lucid Puppy 528 on an ancient Toshiba laptop and on a slightly more modern Dell Dimension. The Toshiba has single CD/DVD drive; the Dell has a CD drive and a DVD recorder drive.

On the Toshiba, DVDs play automatically in Xine; on the Dell, I cannot get DVDs to play on anything. I've used Setup to select the CD & DVD drives. I also use Wary on the Dell, but it's the same story with DVDs.

Not desperately important, but just wondered why there is this difference

[bigpup]

Do you get a DVD drive icon on desktop when DVD is in drive?
If yes.
What happens when you click on drive icon on desktop with a DVD in drive?

[loubapache]

I have a similar problem as OP when I set up for a friend an older Gateway Desktop.

The Desktop has a DVD drive and a CDRW drive. I booted Puppy with the CD in the DVD drive. Howevr, later on in installing puppy, the only way to get it work is to put the CD in the CDRW drive (to copy to the HD). Once Puppy was installed, Puppy won't recognize the DVD drive anymore. The drive icon is there but clicking on it generated some error.

I am not at the machine now but the error message was something about ISO 9600, etc. I can get the for sure message if that is useful.

[bigpup]

loubapache ,

Please make your own topic about your computer.
Very hard to talk about two different computers in one topic.
Problem may be similar, but hardware is not.

[Eastern Counties]

Thanks for your reply bigpup.

On the Dell desktop:
1. With Lucid 528, I do get a DVD drive icon. When I click on it, the disc spins, Xine opens, then brings up '1st message', below. When I click on 'More...', it brings up '2nd message' below.
2. With Wary513, I also get a DVD drive icon. When I click on it,the disc spins, Ogle opens, freezes for while then closes. At this point, the disc stops spinning.

John

[Semme]

By "dvds" I take your comment covers more than one. How`bout from a live run- the same?

[Eastern Counties]

Hi Semme

Thanks for your message.

[Semme]

Say John, were you guys talking about your Dimension here? Perhaps there's something "physically" amiss or not quite in order that's confusing Pup's hardware detection? This the original drive that came supplied with the box or an after-market? The one you used to burn these same photo dvds?

How about the video card..

[rjbrewer]

Try Pmount; does it show audio or video_ts files?

Try Mplayer-open DVD.

What kind of DVDs are these?

[Eastern Counties]

Again thanks to both of you for your help.

OK, so Semme,

[Semme]

Hi John, so you say you added the dvd drive yourself.... gets me thinking about r_hughes reply..

What's Pup call this dvd drive- before if you haven't swapped connections, after if you have?

[Eastern Counties]

Hi Semme

Yes, all sorted now. I took both the CD and DVD-RW drives out (pretty easy on a Dell Dimension) and swapped the cable plugs and power feeds from one to the other. There is a single flat cable from the motherboard which piggy-backs from one drive to the other. I was surprised that the cable was conveniently stamped 'DRIVE 0' and 'DRIVE 1'. Previously, the DVD drive was on sr1 (and was recognised by Puppy as such) now it is on sr0 (and again recognised by Puppy as such).

The jumpers were set to 'Master' on the CD and 'Slave' on the DVD, so I changed them both to 'Cable Select'.

Now, with a DVD in the drive, clicking on the sr0 icon starts Ogle in Wary, or Xine in Lucid, and in both cases, the DVDs play perfectly. Interestlingly even the jpg photo files open correctly now.

So thanks to eveybody for their help. I'll contact r_hughes and thank him too.

John

[Semme]

John- GREAT! Great to hear.. Sometimes that xtra "nudge" is all it takes.

Incase it wasn't obvious- your response this morning is a pleasing one.