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I have a DVD drive in both of my Thinkpad T20's. I can play DVD movies
using Ogle, Xine and mplayer. In fact, it makes long car trips with the
kids quite tolerable :) Be sure to install libdvdcss to decode the
(feeble and annoying) encryption in commercial DVD movies.

I don't have burner capability on either laptop but I do on other
systems. I have had consistent success using k3b to create DVD data
archives as well as bootable DVD disks. It is quite possible to create
the same CD/DVD's using mkisofs and cdrecord as they are the underlying
tools of k3b (and gcombust and xcdroast), but burning the occasional
disk as opposed to burning repetitive, custom ones from a script works
well with k3b.

On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 18:30 -0400, Bob Toxen wrote:
> Jim,
> 
> Do you have the DVD/CD-writing device in your ThinkPad?
> I've been offered a used one for sale for $100 but I don't know what
> software to install (or how) to try to read DVDs.
> 
> Any advice would be very helpful.
> 
> Thanks,
> Bob
> 
> On Sat, Aug 13, 2005 at 02:51:57AM -0400, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> > My Thinkpad T40 (can't be that much different) has the following modules
> > laoded:
> > 
> > snd_seq_dummy
> > snd_intel8x0
> > snd_ac97_codec
> > snd_pcm_oss
> > snd_mixer_oss
> > snd_pcm
> > snd_page_alloc
> > snd_mpu401_uart
> > snd_seq_oss
> > snd_seq_midi
> > snd_rawmidi
> > snd_seq_midi_event
> > snd_seq
> > snd_seq_dummy
> > snd_timer
> > snd_seq_device
> > snd
> > 
> > hth,
> > 
> > -Jim P.
> > 
> > On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 01:05 -0400, Bob Toxen wrote:
> > > My IBM ThinkPad R31 laptop sound working this evening.
> > > 
> > > The suggestion to load the i810_audio module failed because it failed
> > > with an undefined symbol.  I grep'ed for the variable's name in other
> > > source files in the same directory and found it defined in ac97_codec.c.
> > > 
> > > I then loaded this module before the i810_audio module and there, in
> > > the Caribou Coffee Shop, I had sound!
> > > 
> > > Bob
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