Replaced cdrw with dvdrw - configure?

[calicoman]

When I replaced my cd writer with a dvd burner I did not change either my fstab or devfsd.conf. I can play cdroms, play streaming video with mplayer, have burned the Gentoo iso (although it finished with an error eventhough the simulated run was ok), but so far have not been able to play a regular dvd with mplayer. Since mplayer looks for /dev/dvd which I don't have, I am wondering if I have to reconfigure either fstab/devfsd.conf or both to create the device dvd. If so, do I have to configure cdrom0 to /dev/dvd or create 2 entries for cdrom0, one pointing to /dev/cdrom and one pointing to /dev/dvd. Incidentally, I have read man mplayer - sure is a lot of stuff there

[NeddySeagoon]

calicoman,

/dev/dvd is a symbolic link to your actual dvd device file.
Use

[soya]

you only have to edit your fstab so all point are ok.

/dev/hdX /mnt/dvd

or

/dev/cdroms/cdromX /mnt/dvd

Then just make a symlink

ln -sf /dev/hdX /dev/dvd

or

ln -sf /dev/cdroms/cdromX /mnt/dvd

With this and then configuring every program, sghould be ok. You may also want to add "dvd" and "dvdr" to your USE flag and recompile your programs with dvd support. In mplayer you may also need some codecs support.
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[calicoman]

Thanks for the quick replies to my questions. Will change configs as suggested.