Re: cdrom permission problem

[Dale Morris <dlm@well.com>]

Yes, I've done the adduser (myusername) cdrom.

Alson van der Meulen [alson@linuxfreak.nl] wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 04:45:57AM -0800, Dale Morris wrote:
> > I installed 2.2 and upgraded to the 2.4 kernel. I configured my sound card
> > in the kernel and it works fine with real audio and XMMS. Problem is when I
> > put a cd in the cdrom drive and execute Gnome CD player, I get the following
> > error message:
> > Error accessing cdrom device
> > Please check to make sure cdrom drive support is compiled into the kernel
> > and you have permission to access the device.
> > 
> > If I execute Gnome CD player from root, it works fine. I have done the
> > following..
> > adduser myusername cdrom
> > chmod 660 /dev/cdrom
> > chgrp cdrom /dev/cdrom
> is the user you try to run gnomecd player as in the group cdrom?
> 
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> If I knew it wasn't going to work, I would have tested it sooner.
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