[Wine] Re: How to access optical drive (cd, dvd)?

Wintershade wineforum-user at winehq.org
Tue Mar 22 05:56:45 CDT 2011


vitamin wrote:
> No, it doesn't.
> 
> Wine supports HAL/dbus for detecting new mounted devices. And automatically assigning drive letter. The reason it's not forking for you is it's either you don't have development headers when you compiled Wine. Or you don't have correct 32-bit libraries.
Hmm. I however don't even have HAL installed, since Arch abandoned it, just like some other distros in their current versions :(



vitamin wrote:
> Also Wine supports most iocpls for the CD-ROM devices - direct access to the drive/media.
Forgive my ignorance, but how do I put those to good use? TIA







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