Subject: Re: DVD Player

[Jay Scherrer]

My DVD payer works great with xcdroast and  FC1. Only after Fedora's 
kernel went 2.6, then it broke. X-CD-Roast is a great CD/DVD 
authoring  tool. And Jörg Schilling had renewed his free ProDVD-key 
till March 5th 2005. But since the kernel upgrade, something went 
wrong. Xcdroast had been a major package until kernel 2.6. 
Here is what <http://xcdroast.org> has to say: "Linux Kernel 2.6.8 
broke CD-Writing:
I had several reports that the last 2.6.x kernel broke CD-Writing 
using the ATAPI driver. Don't update if you want to continue to use 
X-CD-Roast, or switch back to SCSI-emulation."

How do we request  a response to fix this?
Jay Scherrer 

On Monday 29 November 2004 09:43 pm, fedora-list-request at redhat.com 
wrote:
> On Tuesday 30 November 2004 12:38 am, Scott wrote:
> > I'm curious....
> >
> > Who do the commercial distros pay to include such software?
>
> Well, I'm not aware of any major distro right now shipping a legal
> dvd-player. The only and first one was TurboLinux a few months ago
> shipping CyberLink PowerDVD.
>
> Soon after that, HP started selling their Linux laptop (which comes
> with SUSE) and it had LinDVD on it.  Note: the SUSE distro does not
> come with LinDVD. This was mainly an HP & Intervideo arrengement
> (it seems).
>
> Right now, you can't buy LinDVD or PowerDVD. They're just doing
> business with OEM's.
>
> So..asking your question, these distros may pay the company that
> produces the dvd player...and these dvd companies may pay the
> technology owners...
>
> HTH
> Jorge