[MPlayer-users] DVD playback: ILLEGAL REQUEST and couldnotopendevice

Russell Packer russell.packer at arnoldinteractive.com
Thu Aug 5 11:58:07 CEST 2004


> -----Original Message-----
> From: mplayer-users-bounces at mplayerhq.hu [mailto:mplayer-users-
> bounces at mplayerhq.hu] On Behalf Of Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski
> Sent: 05 August 2004 10:38
> To: MPlayer usage questions, features, bugreports
> Subject: Re: [MPlayer-users] DVD playback: ILLEGAL REQUEST and
> couldnotopendevice
> 
> 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?

I have:

CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDESCSI=m
CONFIG_SCSI=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD=y
CONFIG_SD_EXTRA_DEVS=40
CONFIG_CHR_DEV_ST=m
CONFIG_CHR_DEV_OSST=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR=y
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR_VENDOR is not set
CONFIG_SR_EXTRA_DEVS=2
CONFIG_CHR_DEV_SG=y
CONFIG_SCSI_DEBUG_QUEUES=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_3W_XXXX_RAID=m
CONFIG_SCSI_7000FASST=m
CONFIG_SCSI_ACARD=m
CONFIG_SCSI_AHA152X=m
CONFIG_SCSI_AHA1542=m
CONFIG_SCSI_AHA1740=m
CONFIG_SCSI_AACRAID=m
CONFIG_SCSI_AIC7XXX=m
CONFIG_AIC7XXX_CMDS_PER_DEVICE=8
CONFIG_AIC7XXX_RESET_DELAY_MS=15000
# CONFIG_AIC7XXX_PROBE_EISA_VL is not set
# CONFIG_AIC7XXX_BUILD_FIRMWARE is not set
# CONFIG_AIC7XXX_DEBUG_ENABLE is not set
CONFIG_AIC7XXX_DEBUG_MASK=0
# CONFIG_AIC7XXX_REG_PRETTY_PRINT is not set
CONFIG_SCSI_AIC79XX=m
CONFIG_AIC79XX_CMDS_PER_DEVICE=32
CONFIG_AIC79XX_RESET_DELAY_MS=15000
# CONFIG_AIC79XX_BUILD_FIRMWARE is not set
# CONFIG_AIC79XX_ENABLE_RD_STRM is not set
# CONFIG_AIC79XX_DEBUG_ENABLE is not set
CONFIG_AIC79XX_DEBUG_MASK=0
# CONFIG_AIC79XX_REG_PRETTY_PRINT is not set
CONFIG_SCSI_AIC7XXX_OLD=m
# CONFIG_AIC7XXX_OLD_TCQ_ON_BY_DEFAULT is not set
CONFIG_AIC7XXX_OLD_CMDS_PER_DEVICE=8
# CONFIG_AIC7XXX_OLD_PROC_STATS is not set
CONFIG_SCSI_DPT_I2O=m
CONFIG_SCSI_ADVANSYS=m
CONFIG_SCSI_IN2000=m
CONFIG_SCSI_AM53C974=m
CONFIG_SCSI_MEGARAID=m
CONFIG_SCSI_MEGARAID2=m
CONFIG_SCSI_BUSLOGIC=m
# CONFIG_SCSI_OMIT_FLASHPOINT is not set
CONFIG_SCSI_CPQFCTS=m
CONFIG_SCSI_DMX3191D=m
CONFIG_SCSI_DTC3280=m
CONFIG_SCSI_EATA=m
# CONFIG_SCSI_EATA_TAGGED_QUEUE is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_EATA_LINKED_COMMANDS is not set
CONFIG_SCSI_EATA_MAX_TAGS=16
CONFIG_SCSI_EATA_DMA=m
CONFIG_SCSI_EATA_PIO=m
CONFIG_SCSI_FUTURE_DOMAIN=m
CONFIG_SCSI_GDTH=m
CONFIG_SCSI_GENERIC_NCR5380=m
CONFIG_SCSI_GENERIC_NCR53C400=y
CONFIG_SCSI_G_NCR5380_PORT=y
# CONFIG_SCSI_G_NCR5380_MEM is not set
CONFIG_SCSI_IPS=m
CONFIG_SCSI_INITIO=m
CONFIG_SCSI_INIA100=m
CONFIG_SCSI_PPA=m
CONFIG_SCSI_IMM=m
CONFIG_SCSI_IZIP_EPP16=y
# CONFIG_SCSI_IZIP_SLOW_CTR is not set
CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C406A=m
CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C7xx=m
# CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C7xx_sync is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C7xx_FAST is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C7xx_DISCONNECT is not set
CONFIG_SCSI_SYM53C8XX_2=m
CONFIG_SCSI_SYM53C8XX_DMA_ADDRESSING_MODE=1
CONFIG_SCSI_SYM53C8XX_DEFAULT_TAGS=16
CONFIG_SCSI_SYM53C8XX_MAX_TAGS=64
# CONFIG_SCSI_SYM53C8XX_IOMAPPED is not set
CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX=m
CONFIG_SCSI_SYM53C8XX=m
CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_DEFAULT_TAGS=8
CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_MAX_TAGS=32
CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_SYNC=20
# CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_PROFILE is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_IOMAPPED is not set
CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_PQS_PDS=y
# CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_SYMBIOS_COMPAT is not set
CONFIG_SCSI_PAS16=m
CONFIG_SCSI_PCI2000=m
CONFIG_SCSI_PCI2220I=m
CONFIG_SCSI_PSI240I=m
CONFIG_SCSI_QLOGIC_FAS=m
CONFIG_SCSI_QLOGIC_ISP=m
CONFIG_SCSI_QLOGIC_FC=m
CONFIG_SCSI_QLOGIC_FC_FIRMWARE=y
CONFIG_SCSI_QLOGIC_1280=m
CONFIG_SCSI_SEAGATE=m
CONFIG_SCSI_SIM710=m
CONFIG_SCSI_SYM53C416=m
CONFIG_SCSI_DC390T=m
# CONFIG_SCSI_DC390T_NOGENSUPP is not set
CONFIG_SCSI_T128=m
CONFIG_SCSI_U14_34F=m
# CONFIG_SCSI_U14_34F_LINKED_COMMANDS is not set
CONFIG_SCSI_U14_34F_MAX_TAGS=8
CONFIG_SCSI_ULTRASTOR=m
CONFIG_SCSI_NSP32=m
CONFIG_SCSI_DEBUG=m
CONFIG_I2O_SCSI=m

The only other thing in the logs was:

Aug  3 12:49:13 dvdburner modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module
sound-slot-1
Aug  3 12:49:13 dvdburner modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module
sound-service-1-3
Aug  3 12:49:13 dvdburner modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module
sound-slot-2
Aug  3 12:49:13 dvdburner modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module
sound-service-2-3
Aug  3 12:49:14 dvdburner modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module
sound-slot-3
Aug  3 12:49:14 dvdburner modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module
sound-service-3-3

But, these went away when I selected OSS instead of ALSA.

I just did a grep for "block-major" and came back with:

Aug  4 14:59:15 dvdburner modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module
block-major-8
Aug  4 14:59:54 dvdburner modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module
block-major-8
Aug  4 15:00:04 dvdburner modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module
block-major-8

But then that was yesterday when I was trying every device I could think
of in every possible way to see if it made any difference. Eg. hdc, sda,
sda1, sdc, sdc1, sr0, etc...






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