Steve Campbell spake the following on 3/1/2007 7:56 AM: > I'm running CentOS 3 and have just installed a Liteon lightscribe DVD/CD > unit. I firstly realized I didn't know exactly how to mount it, as > /dev/dvd didn't exist, I didn't want to generate anything if it already > existed, and I didn't want to mess up my cdrom unit that works just fine. > > I mounted the device though the X window just to see how it might mount, > and find that it mounts /dev/cdrom1 on /mnt/cdrom1, regardless of what > type media is in the drive. Does this sound proper? Should I mknod(?) > something for the /dev/dvd device and if so, what should be the parms? > > I then tried to find a movie viewer on the machine, and only found > mplayer. I couldn't get it to work properly due to the configuration > options (not a very powerful machine). What does anyone use for a DVD > viewer? > > And lastly, what are recommendations for implementing the lightscribe > functions that exist on the drive? > > Any help is very graciously appreciated. > > Steve Campbell > campbell at cnpapers.com > Charleston Newspapers /dev/cdrom(1) seems to be standard, but look at the dvd howto for help ( http://tldp.org/HOWTO/html_single/DVD-Playback-HOWTO/ ). I am not sure if CentOS will have any DVD playing capability without an outside repo (licensing issues from RedHat). Look at http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/redhat-fedora-linux-help/63953-how-play-dvds.html As for the Lightscribe, http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?pid=10803 -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!