FC2 not accessing CDROM/DVD

[Kyle Skrinak]

Under FC1 I was able to access the CDROM in my HP Pavilion N5450 PIII laptop. I have a boot partitiion into WinXP and WinXP can successfully read data either as a CD or DVD. With FC2, kernel 2.6.6, I can not access this drive, or so says Ogle:

libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.8 for DVD access
libdvdread: Could not open /dev/dvd with libdvdcss.
libdvdread: Can't open /dev/dvd for reading
ERROR[ogle_nav]: faild to open/read the DVD
DVDSetDVDRoot:: Root not set

As per the FAQ here, I installed Ogle via Yum with the yum.conf file provided. hwbrowser sees the drive but I'm not clear how to verify that the system has properly configured access to the drives.

[shsinha]

I got the same problem and figured it out. Probably, it is same problem. I have a cdrom and another dvd+-r/rw drive
First I tried using ogle, xine..error is....
[root@localhost root]# ogle
libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.8 for DVD access
libdvdread: Could not open /dev/dvd with libdvdcss.
libdvdread: Can't open /dev/dvd for reading
ERROR[ogle_nav]: faild to open/read the DVD
DVDSetDVDRoot:: Root not set
{same error}
I checked the symlink
/dev/dvd is symlinked to /dev/cdrom
/dev/cdrom symlinked to /dev/hdd
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 Aug 1 01:35 dvd -> cdrom
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Jul 18 10:13 cdrom -> /dev/hdd
brw------- 1 shashank disk 22, 64 Feb 23 16:02 hdd

however, my "df " command shows that dvd is mounted in /dev/hdc and not /dev/hdd
which means, the symlink was not correct. I removed the symlink in /dev directory (rm dvd) and created it back to hdc (or cdrom1) #ln -s /dev/cdrom1 dvd
and it is working fine...
Just check the symlink..it would be fine..