Minor bug in SuSE 8.2 on Dell Inspiron 5100

This is minor, especially for a veteran penguin, but I would not have been 
able to figure this out unless I had hacked with Debian for sevral months 
before using SuSE:
1. I installed libs and Ogle using YaST; everything seemed to install 
properly.
2. I tried <alt>+<F2> (to run an application) and then entered ogle. The 
dialog box disappeared.
3. I opened a shell and typed ogle. It complained that it could not stat 
/dev/dvd and then exited.
4. I installed okle, and tried to run it; again it complained about the lack 
of /dev/dvd, and exited.
5. I checked /dev and sure enough, there was not a dvd device listed.
6. I ran YaST to look at how SuSE had identified the hardware, and it had 
identified my Matshita CD-RW/DVD correctly, and called it /dev/sr0.
7. I su'ed as root and entered:
#ln /dev/sr0 /dev/dvd
This creates a symbolic link to a device that the system already recognizes as 
a DVD player. Since Ogle is looking for /dev/dvd, this creates a virtual file 
by that name that jumps directly to the working device.
8. I checked (via Konqueror) that the link was created, it was. Then I started 
Okle, and it ran fine. (I had to turn on DMA for my drives to get it to run 
smoothly, but your FAQ gave fine instructions for how to do that.)

I offer these instructions so that other newbies can get DVDs running without 
mucking around too much in the guts of their systems. Hopefully I am part of 
a transitional group who should never need to be serious hackers just to use 
Linux for typical PC uses.

Pietro Calogero
Urban Planner, non-programmer