Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Problems mounting DVDs

[Brandon Edens]

As an anecdote for future posterity. I installed Gentoo on my laptop the moment
I got it into my hands. I noticed that I couldn't play DVDs and that things were
acting quite strange. As it turns out I had to use the regionset program to set
the region for my drive, it was set to nothing I suppose. 

I guess Windows would've done this for me during the initial "first time" use
period. The manufacturers must ship these things out in regionless mode as the
laptops are sent to all over the world. Not sure if this would affect a DVD
drive purchased at the store but it might.

Just mentioning it.
Brandon

On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 10:12:41AM +0000, Duncan wrote:

> "Mark Haney" <mhaney@××××××××××××.org> posted
> 446CAC48.7070506@××××××××××××.org, excerpted below, on  Thu, 18 May 2006
> 13:18:00 -0400:
>
> > I don't know if this is a hardware issue or not, but the last 3 days I've
> > been unable to mount DVDs that I've just burned data to with K3b. Being
> > unable to mount isn't sucha a big deal except for the fact that KDE
> > freezes, the entire system freezes when it's trying to mount.  Not only
> > that when I boot with one of these DVDs in the drive, I get a kernel panic
> > over /dev/hdc (the DVD drive.  It's fine with CD's either burned or
> > bought.  Has anyone else had this problem?
>
> Have you tried DVDs either previously burned successfully or bought? (Here,
> the dollar store is a good place to buy new-dvd-but-old-content ones, for
> testing or the like, if you don't fancy supporting the MIAA or the like
> buying new-content ones.)
>
> I've had no issues but then again I haven't burnt anything real recently,
> either.
>
>
>
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