[MPlayer-users] How to start mplayer

[Dominik Mierzejewski]

On Friday, 28 March 2003, Stephen Liu wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hi,
> 
> Dominik Mierzejewski wrote:
> >[Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> >- snip -
> >
> >hdparm -vi /dev/cdrom
> 
> /dev/cdrom:
>  HDIO_GET_MULTCOUNT failed: Invalid argument
>  I/O support  =  0 (default 16-bit)
>  unmaskirq    =  0 (off)
>  using_dma    =  0 (off)

The above three settings need to be enabled. Read man hdparm. And since you
have RH7.3 I think you need some additional entry in /etc/modules.conf
(check the archives of this list).

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