Re: Cannot play Audio Cds but Data Cds are fine (used to work)

[wayne@chilledout.worldonline.co.uk (Wayne)]

> 
> Hi Wayne,
> 
> Are you able to listen to audio CDs as root? I had that problem, and
> what I ened up doing was changing the group for my device (/dev/hdb)
> to the cdrom group. I then added myself to the cdrom group and was
> able to play (and hear!) audio CDs as a normal user.
> 
> I don't think the fstab entries have much to do with it. I think they
> just set you up so you can mount the drive easily, and I don't think
> you need to mount audio CDs to play them.
> 
> I'm going to follow this thread closely, because I too have an IDE
> burner that I haven't gotten around to setting up yet. What's said
> here may help me dodge a bullet when I get ready to try. It's been too
> easy to reboot into Windows, are burn a disc when I need to. However,
> last weekend I reached the limit of my tolerance for the crashes and
> yanked the Windows drive. ;^)

Good man, you know it makes sense <*gg*>
I rarely boot into Windoze these days now I have Quake III running smoothly under Linux I don't have any reason too :-)

> 
> Good luck!
> -- 
> Mark Wagnon <mwagnon1@home.com>

Thanks for the response, see other post (accidentally posted this twice, just managed to get my mailserver working :-)  ) In my case it was the symlink for /dev/cdrom that was wrong. once I corrected this it worked fine.

If you are going to set up your burner under Linux, I would just like to point out a caveat I fell for. I compiled ide-scsi emulation into the kernel and couldn't get it to work (someone reading this I expect could tell you how as I am still a newbie *gg*). So I recompiled the kernel with it as a loadable module, and compiled into the kernel scsi-support and generic-scsi. This works fine.

HTH

Regards

Wayne.