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[John Purser]

pogo162 at comcast.net wrote:

>Hello, Im new to Linux and need a little help.
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>I'm running Debian 3.1 and I can't get it to play DVD's.  I've used Totem and Ogle.  Totem comes back with an error saying 'failed to open device /dev/hdc for reading: Permission denied', and Ogle says several things like 'libdvdread: encrypted dvd support unavalable', 'libdvd: couldn't find device name', and 'callbacks.on_opendvd_activate(): DVDSetDVDRoot: Root not set'
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>I did read the readme, and did the download for the css encriptions, but am still getting that error too.
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>Can anyone help please?
>Glen M.
>2 week old Linux user
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Glen,

Welcome to life with the Penguin.  And congratulations on selecting the 
distribution that EVERYBODY agrees is far superior technically and 
morally to all the rest.  That Sarge installer is really sweet isn't it?

I don't have a dvd player on a Linux box but I do belong to the 
Debian-user mailing list.  You can sign up for it at:
http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/

This is a fairly high volume list so be prepared.  Read the faq and you 
might search the archives to see if you can find your problem discussed 
recently.  If that doesn't work post to the list and you're sure to get 
an appropriate response.

Good Luck,

John Purser