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

Russell Packer russell.packer at arnoldinteractive.com
Thu Aug 5 10:54:55 CEST 2004


> On Wednesday, 04 August 2004 at 13:32, Russell Packer wrote:
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: mplayer-users-bounces at mplayerhq.hu [mailto:mplayer-users-
> > > bounces at mplayerhq.hu] On Behalf Of Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski
> > > Sent: 04 August 2004 12:14
> > > To: mplayer-users at mplayerhq.hu
> > > Subject: Re: [MPlayer-users] DVD playback: ILLEGAL REQUEST and
could
> > > not opendevice
> > >
> > > On Tuesday, 03 August 2004 at 16:50, Russell Packer wrote:
> > > > Hi all,
> > > >
> > > > I've hunted high and low through all the manuals, the faq, and
the
> > > > wonderful world of google, but can't seem to get mplayer to play
my
> > > > DVDs!
> > > >
> > > > I'm using Slackware 10, and have the following DVD writer:
> > > >
> > > > Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
> > > >   Vendor: _NEC     Model: DVD_RW ND-2510A  Rev: 2.15
> > > >   Type:   CD-ROM                           ANSI SCSI revision:
02
> > > >
> > > > 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
snd-pcm-oss            37736   0
snd-mixer-oss          12504   0  [snd-pcm-oss]
i810_rng                2528   0  (unused)
uhci                   24444   0  (unused)
usbcore                59308   1  [uhci]
snd-intel8x0           18924   0
snd-ac97-codec         49500   0  [snd-intel8x0]
gameport                1420   0  [snd-intel8x0]
snd-pcm                56072   0  [snd-pcm-oss snd-intel8x0]
snd-timer              13604   0  [snd-pcm]
snd-page-alloc          6328   0  [snd-intel8x0 snd-pcm]
snd-mpu401-uart         3200   0  [snd-intel8x0]
snd-rawmidi            12740   0  [snd-mpu401-uart]
snd-seq-device          3888   0  [snd-rawmidi]
snd                    30852   0  [snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss
snd-intel8x0 snd-ac97-codec snd-pcm snd-timer snd-mpu401-uart
snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device]
soundcore               3396   4  [snd]
eepro100               19252   1
mii                     2272   0  [eepro100]
ide-scsi                9328   0
agpgart                43940   0  (unused)

The only message from the kernel is the ILLEGAL REQUEST one in my
syslog.






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