Re: Audio CD Problems with Potato
Perhaps the problem is that you are trying to access an IDE device
(/dev/hdc or whatever your CD-ROM drive is) as a normal user that is not
part of the disk group? Try adding yourself to disk, and see if that
helps.
On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 08:47:32PM -0700, Mark Wagnon wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm having some trouble getting audio CDs to play as an unpriviledged
> user. I am able to do so as root though, so it looks to me like a
> permission problem. I am able to send various audio files to /dev/dsp
> and /dev/audio as root. I have sound working in Ximian GNOME as a
> normal user. I added my normal user account to the audio group,
> thinking that this would solve the problem, but it didn't seem to. I
> have changed permissions on a couple of the audio device files, but I
> still seem to be having some trouble. changing the file access
> permissions for /dev/mixer to 666 allowed me to start gmix (I was not
> able to before). I'm just a little leary of changing all the files'
> permissions, which was the primary reason for adding myself to the
> audio group.
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