KDE cd and dvd player help

[Alma J Wetzker]

Net Llama! wrote:
> On Sun, 14 Dec 2003, Alma J Wetzker wrote:
> 
>>I recently lost my Caldera 3.1.1 WS and decided to go with gentoo for a time.
>>  I still use KDE.  I logged out before I shut down the kscd program and now
>>all the users say the application is already running.  I can't find the lock
>>file.  Does anyone know where it is?
> 
> 
> Sorry, no clue there.  I haven't used KDE in almost 3 years.
>
> 
>>I am trying to get DVD player software working.  I can play some DVD's as root
>>using xine but I don't get the control panel as a mortal user.  Also mortal
>>users get errors about not having dxr3.  (What is it and why do I need it?)
>>And looking for /dev/em8300-0.  (Same question.)  [I actually tried to find
>>this but it wanted to recompile my kernel, then I would need to recompile
>>alsa, an I am not sure that would be the end.]
> 
> 
> Sounds like gentoo is doing devfs.  At any rate, did you build xine from
> source?  If not, then you really need to.  The control panel normally can
> be run simply by middle clicking in the Xine window.  What kind of error
> appears when you try that?

I was using 'emulate third button' on the mouse.  I switched to 3 button and 
it worked.  (???)  [Of course the scroll wheel doesn't work in this mode, time 
to play around...]

Gentoo is using devfs.  I am not sure of the point since everything is 
symlinked back to the /dev directory anyway.  I thought I saw that devfs is 
going away in 2.6.?, is that still the case?

[Time and testing pass....]

I am trying to watch the LOTR extended edition DVD's and they don't work 
(There is no input plugin available to handle 'dvd:/'  Maybe MRL syntax is 
wrong or file/stream source doesn't exist.)  Xine works fine for other DVD's. 
  Any ideas?

     -- Alma