Re: Can't play audio CD's on G4 (woody)
Hi Clive,
On Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 01:25:33PM +0000, Clive Menzies wrote:
> >>When I try to play a CD using Xmms it can't seem to read
> >>the Audio CD and suggests I make sure I have the requisite permissions
> >>(which I have).
> >
> >Have you logged out and back in since you set the group ownership? Is
> >/dev/hdc the correct device, or have you set it up for SCSI emulation?
If I remember back I had some trouble with that group problem, adding
myself with "vigr" to group sound. I tried a few times, at the end it
just worked with "addgroup" ( =8-o ). It was Woody around
X-mas. Don't know why, but probably it might help ...
> Yes, I've actually rebooted a few times, as well (dual booting MacOSX).
> I had read somewhere (TiBook doc but mine is a PowerMac) that generic
> scsi needs to be enabled in the kernel; so I checked that within
> menuconfig to be on the safe side. Am I right in assuming that because
> I have nothing SCSI (as far as I am aware), I should now remove it?
You probably like to have CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR and CONFIG_CHR_DEV_SR for
CDROM and CD-RW ;) ( see kernel-help).
HTH &
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M.f.G.
Georg Koss
mailto: g.koss@nextra.at
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