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AfroKorean
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 Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2008 12:07 pm Post subject: DVD-RW / Playing DVD's |
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does anyone have any suggestions for a DVD-RW drive for Asus Eee PC?
i havn't been able to succesfully watch a dvd with my current drive and cant' seem to find a linux driver for it ( nec nd-6500a )........any suggestions? |
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Spawn
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| Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 10:54 pm Post subject: |
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| Dump the NEC drive get a new one. NEC is one those brands that are evil in my book. I have had nothing but trouble with NEC and Buslink products, even in windows they don't always work right. |
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AfroKorean
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| Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 12:36 pm Post subject: |
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spawn......i had a feeling that would be the response......thanks for the confirmation......however, do u have any suggestions for drives that work well with xandros linux?
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Spawn
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| I use sony drives myself in towers. I have never added a drive to a notebook, but I am sure sony makes them for notebooks too. I have also tried pioneer and toshiba they all work fine. Check out newegg.com or even the asus site for recommendations. Drives are fairly inexpensive if you buy OEM, this means no cable or instructions, but you save 10-15 dollars. So, hope I helped. The easy way is to buy an external usb drive. I dont know much about the Asus eee, but it doesn't look like it has an interanl one, right? |
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AfroKorean
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| Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 10:35 am Post subject: |
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nah, no internal drive.......thanks for the suggestions though, the strange thing is i'm able to use the nec to install the os it just won't let me do anything else......
thanks,
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Spawn
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| I am guessing this is a new drive, and this suggestion may sound bizzare but try a lens cleaning disc. Also a correction to my suggestion about the sony drives. Sony apparently has teamed up with NEC. So I can't say for certain if a sony drive will be any better. Good luck. |
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AfroKorean
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| spawn.....running a cleaning disc was the first thing i did when i noticed there were problems......i'd suspected that i would need to buy a new drive......i'm just going to stash the drive away until i get a new laptop or a friend needs it |
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smschmidt
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| Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2008 3:55 am Post subject: Re: DVD-RW / Playing DVD's |
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| AfroKorean wrote: | does anyone have any suggestions for a DVD-RW drive for Asus Eee PC?
i havn't been able to succesfully watch a dvd with my current drive and cant' seem to find a linux driver for it ( nec nd-6500a )........any suggestions? |
Problem Solved - goto http://www.geekconnection.org/downloads.htm
Great Site add to your bookmarks. Stroll down to Codecs (Thanks to DarthChaosOfRSPW for package contributions!) Download this file libdvdcss2_1.2.9-0sarge0.0_i386.deb Codecs for playing commercial DVD's
http://www.geekconnection.org/apt/libdvdcss2_1.2.9-0sarge0.0_i386.deb
Once install Enjoy Watching all Dvd's on your System. |
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Erich-H
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| Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2008 7:33 pm Post subject: |
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| Spawn wrote: | | Dump the NEC drive get a new one. NEC is one those brands that are evil in my book. I have had nothing but trouble with NEC and Buslink products, even in windows they don't always work right. |
Really!?? Have had no problem at all with my NEC 3550A cd/dvd drive. In Fact I purposely bought an NEC Drive because others have raved about it's reliability, performance and accuracy etc. Both XP and Xandros have no problem using it on my system. I'm surprised by your comment.
Erich
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