Well done Douglas

[Nils Kassube]

Knapp wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 6:16 AM, Rod Lovett <rodlovett at ozemail.com.au> 
wrote:
> > Hi Kubuntu users have been more helpful than the forums.
> > Changing the xine parameters in Kaffeine from dev/cdrom and dev/dvd
> > to dev/scd0 fixed this annoying kaffeine problem. The hdo not being
> > updated to scdo for the storage media was a bit obscure, and
> > hopefully the developers will take note. I'll test with a reboot soon
> > to see if the settings I made persist. Cheers
> > Rod
> >
> >
> > I think the real problem is that in older than 8.04 the cdrom was
> > called hd0 and now is called scd0. Kaffiene is set to look for hdo
> > and has not been updated to look for scd0. When you do update it
> > everything is then fine.
> > All this seems to be related to fdisk settings being outdated do to
> > the new use off HAL or something like that that automatically sets up
> > the fdisk stuff at boot.
> > Douglas E Knapp
>
> Thanks. I still wonder what is really wrong and where but at least
> Kaffeine works.

Probably the cause of the problem is that a dist upgrade doesn't touch any 
files in the home directory. The device used for kaffeine is stored in 
one of the kaffeine config files (~/.kde/share/apps/kaffeine/xine-config) 
and therefore survives a dist upgrade. But now the device from the old 
distribution no longer exists. I wonder why the device was /dev/hda 
instead of /dev/dvd or /dev/cdrom. While /dev/hda doesn't exist any 
longer, /dev/dvd and /dev/cdrom should still exist. At least on my 
machines they do - and those are updated from previous Kubuntu versions 
as well.


Nils