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francois.patte@mi.parisdescartes.fr>> wrote:
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> Le 25/03/2010 06:39, Marcel Rieux a écrit :
> > Since nobody seemed to report a problem playing DVDs, I decided to
> check
> > my settings.
> >
> > Smplayer and Gmplayer were both set to play DVDs from /dev/dvd
> >
> > I checked and there was no /dev/dvd. So, I did:
> >
> > ls -l /dev/dvd*
> > lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 3 2010-03-24 12:52 /dev/dvd1 -> sr0
> > lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 3 2010-03-24 12:52 /dev/dvdrw1 -> sr0
>
> Is it still there after reboot?
>
>
> Absolutely. Since I have no access to BIOS settings to put the computer
> to sleep, I reboot every day. And there's not a trace of /dev/dvd , only
> /dev/dvd1 and /dev/dvdrw1, which are both links to /dev/sr0.
>
> When you don't have problems, it's not the kind of settings you check
> closely but, since my dvd players were pointing to /dev/dvd, I would
> think this is the normal setting.
>
> I believe the devices are created at boot time, no? And I even have no
> idea how I could prevent /dev/dvd form being created.