DVD device /dev/dvd missing on FC2

[Robert Locke]

Most media players assume the existence of a device called /dev/dvd. 
However that device is not created by default...  You have two choices:
1) Change the preferences of the media player to point to the "real"
device name or 2) create a symbolic link to /dev/dvd from the real
device "ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/dvd" presuming the DVD drive is called
/dev/hdc (as it was in my case).

--Rob

On Mon, 2004-06-14 at 21:52, fred vachon wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have installed a DVD Multi Recorder on FC2 Linux machine.  I'm testing 
> it and can play Music CD's but when I try to play a DVD using mplayer I 
> get error message "Couldn't open DVD device: /dev/dvd".  I don't see a 
> /dev/dvd device on FC2 install.  I must be missing something but I don't 
> know what it is. 
> 
> Thanks,
> Fred Vachon
>