[MPlayer-users] How to start mplayer

Dominik Mierzejewski dominik at rangers.eu.org
Fri Mar 28 08:37:55 CET 2003


On Friday, 28 March 2003, Stephen Liu wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hi,
[...]
> Where to check the status of DMA?
> 
> Right click  CD-Rom (desktop icon) --> Property
> Could not find it

Geez. This is Linux, not Windows. You should learn to use the command line.
Run this as root:

hdparm -vi /dev/cdrom

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