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Jens Grassel (jan0sch) wrote : DVD playback broken in Karmic

I just upgraded my Dell XPS M1330 to version 9.10 and since then I can no longer play dvds.

No matter what player (totem, mplayer, vlc, dvdrip) I try nothing works.

The syslog is cluttered with lines like this:

Jan 2 22:00:19 tjalfi kernel: [ 981.470251] sr 3:0:0:0: [sr0] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE
Jan 2 22:00:19 tjalfi kernel: [ 981.470263] sr 3:0:0:0: [sr0] Sense Key : Illegal Request [current]
Jan 2 22:00:19 tjalfi kernel: [ 981.470273] sr 3:0:0:0: [sr0] Add. Sense: Media region code is mismatched to logical unit region
Jan 2 22:00:19 tjalfi kernel: [ 981.470288] end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 215848
Jan 2 22:00:19 tjalfi kernel: [ 981.470298] Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 26981
Jan 2 22:00:19 tjalfi kernel: [ 981.470312] Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 26982
Jan 2 22:00:19 tjalfi kernel: [ 981.470319] Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 26983
Jan 2 22:00:19 tjalfi kernel: [ 981.470325] Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 26984
Jan 2 22:00:19 tjalfi kernel: [ 981.470332] Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 26985
Jan 2 22:00:19 tjalfi kernel: [ 981.470338] Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 26986
Jan 2 22:00:19 tjalfi kernel: [ 981.470344] Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 26987
Jan 2 22:00:19 tjalfi kernel: [ 981.470351] Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 26988
Jan 2 22:00:19 tjalfi kernel: [ 981.470358] Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 26989
Jan 2 22:00:19 tjalfi kernel: [ 981.470364] Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 26990
Jan 2 22:00:27 tjalfi init: ureadahead-other main process (7527) terminated with status 4

I tried nearly 200 different dvds and was able to play none of them.