[MPlayer-users] DVD playback: ILLEGAL REQUEST and could notopendevice

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Thursday, 05 August 2004 at 10:54, Russell Packer wrote:
> > On Wednesday, 04 August 2004 at 13:32, Russell Packer wrote:
[...]
> > > > > The error messages I get:
> > > > > 
> > > > > Playing dvd://1.
> > > > > libdvdread: Could not open device with libdvdcss.
> > > > > libdvdread: Can't open /dev/dvd for reading
> > > > > Couldn't open DVD device: /dev/dvd
> > > > > 
> > > > > And in the syslog I get:
> > > > > 
> > > > > kernel: sr0: CDROM (ioctl) reports ILLEGAL REQUEST.
> > > > > 
> > > I am using the 2.4.26 kernel, and mplayer 1.0pre5.
> > 
> > What modules do you have loaded (or compiled into kernel?)
> > $ lsmod
> > Module                  Size  Used by    Tainted: P
> > sr_mod                 14000   0 (autoclean)
> > cdrom                  31200   0 (autoclean) [sr_mod]
> > sg                     28764   0 (autoclean)
> > ide-scsi               10640   0
> > scsi_mod               96856   3 (autoclean) [sr_mod sg ide-scsi]
> > 
> > Are there any suspicious messages from the kernel in logs?
> 
> For me, I have:
> 
> dvduser: lsmod
> Module                  Size  Used by    Not tainted
[...]
> ide-scsi                9328   0
> agpgart                43940   0  (unused)
> 
> The only message from the kernel is the ILLEGAL REQUEST one in my
> syslog.

I don't see any scsi modules. Do you have them compiled into your kernel?
Are there any messages from modprobe about being unable to locate some
module like block-major-something?

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