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My latest adventure had involved getting video and dvd playback from Debian (Sarge) and Fedora Core 1. With Debian, getting xine installed was as easy as apt-get install xine-ui, because apt-get took care of the dependencies (namely xine lib). Once xine was installed, I found a neat site about xine in general, and found out that you can install various skins for the xine player user interface (the picture shows Celoma Gold).  To download a new skin, you press Ctrl+d  while window focus is on the Xine application. You should definately visit http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/xine/ for instructions on how to get xine, and how to get various codecs to support Windows and Mov file formats.
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Of course, once xine was installed, I found out quickly that I could not access my CD-R drive, or my external DVD drive.  I would get an error to the effect that "only root could mount dev/scd0 on mnt/dvdram".  I was pretty sure that when I installed Debian on my system originally that I had chosen to allow normal users to mount devices (like floppy, cd-writer, dvd) -- mostly because this is my computer and I want to do what I want without having to invoke special super-user privileges.  Also, this is what I'm accustomed to doing in a Windows environment.  I think it is great that Linux allows you to precisely configure access to various resources, but for a desktop system, this feature can get in the way.  So, I went hunting for the proper way to turn these devices on.
 
  
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showed that the device was owned by root, and the group cdrom. I checked into the group to see if I was a member by using the graphical tool kuser (System -> User Manager).  That showed I was a member of the cdrom group and the floppy group.
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I read somewhere that I should do a 'modprobe ide-scsi' which didn't show any results.
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But now, when I run the same command, it tells me that this operation is not allowed on a SCSI drive.  As far as I know, this is not a scsi drive, but an ide drive using scsi emulation...Then again, I just a user, and I'm feeling pretty lucky that I know it's a DVD drive.  So, I'm not sure how to cure my jumpy playback issues.  Anyway, at least I've got the permission problems licked, and Xine is installed with a nice UI, and I can playback a DVD from my external DVD drive.
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