Re: sound

[Wayne Sitton <waynes@iexalt.net>]

I'm now gettimg sound under my user, but I still cannot use gnome's
cdplayer, when it opens it tries to mount the cdrom drive and gets
permission denied.  When I go to xterm, su, and try to mount, I get an error
that I must specify file type,  what file type is an audio CD?

Wayne




Alexis Roda wrote:

> Wayne Sitton wrote:
> >
> > It will not work under my user account, so where do I need to change
> > permissions, ownership, or do I need to add myself to another group?
> > I read somewhere that you need to add youself to the audio group(dip),
> > but I don't have that group on my system.
>
> it is installed by default (I believe). Do a ls -l /dev/audio and check
> the group, add your account to this group
>
> > also the gnome cd player will
> > also not run under my user log-in, I suspect that is because it doesn't
> > have the right to mount the drive.  So what do i need to do?
>
> You can 'chown root.cdrom /dev/your_cdrom_dev' and add your account to
> group cdrom. The next time you log in you'll have access to cdrom
> device.
>
> Saludos
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