Re: Groups and what not 2.
Quoting Dave Sherohman (esper@usinternet.com):
> David Wright said:
> > BTW you need to be in audio to use the CD device as a CD player.
>
> I suspect that you should be able to use the CDROM to play audio CDs through
> the headphone jack (assuming it has one, of course) without being in audio,
> but you definitely have to be in group audio (or make /dev/audio, /dev/dsp,
> and, preferably, /dev/mixer world-writable) if you want to play CDs through
> the sound card.
My turn to say whoops!, as I left out why you "need" to be in audio.
Whether you can cause the player to spin depends on who owns the raw
device, and the "Right Thing" is to change the group owner from disk
to audio, I believe.
Cheers,
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