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Re: can't play music cd



On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 04:50:35PM +1030, David Purton wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Dec 2000, Robin Rowe wrote:
> 
> > I want to play a CD using gtcd. It objects that it can't see the CD. Sure
> > enough, not mounted. Do audio CDs mount? Can I convince autofs to do the
> > job?
> > 
> 
> You don't mount audio CDs

correct

> make sure you're part of the appropriate group to access /dev/cdrom (or
> whatever it links to)
> 
> this may be disk or cdrom

wrong.  it is ALWAYS cdrom, if you have an IDE cdrom you need to
change the group on the appropriate device (generally /dev/hdc) to
cdrom. 

NEVER *EVER* add yourself to group disk.  *NEVER*

> then the cdrom player should just recognise it and play

correct.

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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